[spaceman_2020]

The India system is essentially a system of “who you know”. Anyone who grew up in India knows that if you’re a powerful bureaucrat, cop, or politician, you can do whatever you want. The law doesn’t really apply to you.

The only exception is if you manage to piss off someone higher up in the power hierarchy.

Its not so much as authoritarian as it is Darwinian.

[worker_person]

I can't find it now, There was an old article talking about a Zombie party in India. Basically bribing an official to get someone declared dead was easy. Getting it fixed was basically impossible. There was some guy running for office who was legally dead.

[Viliam1234]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_D...

[TedDoesntTalk]

That’s called nepotism, not Darwinian.