shamocracy

jun 10th, 2009

i have been mulling over the lack of democracy in india and writing about it for some time.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/nov/05rajeev.htm

http://rajeev2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/independence-freedom-democracy-and-other-such-myths/

and then comes kim jong-il's coronation of his younger son as the new president of north korea.

what, i ask, is different between this and the coronation of rahul nehru as the new prime minister of india?

hail india, the first and only pseudo-secular monarchy in the world! so it is properly called a shamocracy.

(note: christist monarchies: netherlands, britain, leichtenstein, monaco, etc.
mohammedan monarchies: brunei, saudi arabia, UAE, and too many more to count
communist monarchies: north korea)