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Agreed with the whole thread but there's yet to be an anthropological account written on PPP's legacy that's not from a top-down approach. I don't care about partisans who uphold the legacy but I do care about the working/peasant classes/women who are loyal voters. https://twitter.com/amnawintour/status/1343616575945940997
And one is bound to think of the masses as opiated, by poverty but at the same time there are social security schemes in which are consistent, there is decades of help provided through these political networks.
There is a lot on the ground the urban polity just does not understand, but the urban polity unfortunately is also not a consistent voter. The urban polity is disillusioned and that disillusionment plays into maintaining dynastic power.
The urban polity justifies voting in Imran Khan because he's a charismatic leader but the same polity questions why do people continue voting for the Bhuttos?
The real problem of politics in Sindh is of course connected to Feudal structures – those are what need to be ultimately dismantled, this is what the leftwing parties in Sindh have been struggling against.
And voting in a leftwing party, land reform or a revolution is a far-fetched idea for political centrists of Pakistan – and there's no real alternative to PPP because others parties won't put up that fight? So, then who do the local folks vote for? Please tell me.
