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My teacher wrote the article Election Replay and a point from it struck me peculiar. source " Throughout the past, almost every major contestant has been resorting to some show of force for intimidating their opponents during the elections. Since everybody was involved, it was very easy to blame the political culture of the country and to say  that a nation like Pakistan could not have true democracy; that this is the best which we can get.This sentiment has been reflected in the life and work of those intellectuals who have been supporting various political leaders as champions of democracy without asking those leaders to refrain from un-democratic measures for seizing and holding power." So I was thinking that what made those people think that the nation i.e. we are worthy of such lowly practice and I drew two conclusions: I think, we the nation led them to believe that by behaving in this particular manner. You may call it my naivete that those intellectuals