COllaborative DEcision MAking (codema.in)

An action plan / strategy for current times

Pirate Praveen Sun 4 Jan 2026 3:12PMPublicSeen by 50

I suggest we focus on this question to find people who might work with us.

  1. How do you rate democracy in India on a scale of 0-10? Countries like China and Iran would be 0 and Scandinavian countries like Island, Finland, Sweden, Norway would rank 10 - free education and healthcare for all.

  2. Do you think the opposition parties would improve the situation, even if they are not the ideal situation.

We have to collect people who think the opposition would be relatively better (not fascist, not obviously majoritarian) and try and unite the opposition as splitting on anti BJP votes would play a major spoiler to defeating BJP.

What do you think ?

Jemshid KKSun 4 Jan 2026 5:37PM

Random thoughts
1. Free education and healthcare sounds confusing to me. Education and healthcare are not like sunlight to get it free. People have to work to offer healthcare and education. Are we expecting medics and teachers to work without remuneration?

  1. The opposition parties main focus is to cater to the interest of a large minority which doesn't understand the concept of minority rights and individual rights. What is our agenda here?

Ravi DwivediMon 5 Jan 2026 8:09AM

@Pirate Praveen Yes, we can circulate this question on our social handles and ask people in real life to get some people who believe that the opposition can change things.

Pirate PraveenMon 5 Jan 2026 2:16PM

I think one more question that is crucial is,

  1. How likely it is for India to become a Hindu Rashtra as envisioned by RSS.

Based on how realistic people feel about the possibility, approach to other parties, especially Congress can vary greatly. Only if people realize we are in danger of slipping out of democracy in an irreversible way, people would consider the possibility of keeping democracy, with less than ideal parties like Congress.

Pirate PraveenMon 5 Jan 2026 2:17PM

We should probably ask this question on our home page too and offer a form for people to answer.

kishyWed 7 Jan 2026 9:49AM

in my view, indian democracy has plummeted to a 2 or 3. maybe even worse. how do you begin to rate a democracy where the election commission is compromised.

Ravi DwivediWed 7 Jan 2026 2:41PM

BJP wants people to believe that they are invincible. However, they got 36.56% of votes in 2024 Lok Sabha elections (even when they won 303 seats in 2019, they got 37.36% of votes).

So, we have 64% of people who don't vote for BJP. Let's make that number 60% (because some of them would be voting for an NDA constituent party). We need to convince 60% of those 60% (which makes it around 36%) to vote unitedly against the BJP. It worked to an extent in 2024 - voting patterns show this (despite rigging) when anti-BJP forces (including the voters) united causing the BJP to lose majority in the lower chamber of Indian parliament.

There is still a lot of room for opposition in India. No single party has ever got 50% of votes in any Indian general elections (not talking about the state elections).

ThomasTue 3 Mar 2026 9:45AM

  1. For the first question - Quality of Democracy in India - the answer should be obviously 0. However comparing with China and Iran I can give a maximum value of 1.5, that's all.
  2. Yes, they should improve. It’s time to trade narrow self-interest for a broad community vision. Politics shouldn't be a ladder for personal wealth, but a lever for public welfare. When we focus on empowering the community rather than the individual leader, we unlock a higher quality of life for everyone. Let’s shift the focus from 'What’s in it for me?' to 'How do we all rise together?'