So how do you derail this dissolution of the traditionally safe vote-banks? You scare them. You scare them silly. Unfortunately (for this nation), there are enough motor-mouths around to facilitate that. The moment someone (even an unknown leader) says something stupid, it finds its way on the front-page and prime-time news without fail. The empty rhetoric does not remain empty anymore. The “debate” rages on and then erupts in a Dadri-like tragedy. It is made to sound as if the statements are coming directly from the PMO. Looking at the air-time these comments get, more motor mouths (rather gutter mouths) spring up, and there’s a race to the bottom now.