Politicians are illegitimate.

The reaction to Todd Akin, 6 times Republican Congressman from St. Louis, Missouri has been swift and hostile. A devout Christian, Akin is opposed to all abortions, including in a pregnancy arising from rape. He is the Republican candidate against Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill from Missouri. In a TV interview he said," If it is legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down." He added," ... the punishment ought to be of the rapist and not attacking the child." The idea that rape can be " legitimate " enraged a vast section of the population in the US. Akin then dropped out of an interview on Piers Morgan show on CNN at the last minute prompting Morgan to call him a " gutless little twerp ". The Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney said that Akin's comment was " insulting, inexcusable and, frankly, wrong " and advised him to step down from his race. John Podhoretz of New York Post tweeted," A doctor just told Todd Akin that for people who are legitimately stupid, the body politic has a way of shutting them down." Jamelle Bourie at The American Prospect magazine tweeted," Tomorrow Todd Akin explains that legitimate murders don't cause death." In our Parliament Mr Advani of the BJP had to apologize for saying that the UPA II government is " illegitimate ". Congress members were furious. Never mind that the Congress had only 29% of the the 58% of people who voted in 2009 which means that less than 18% of the electorate voted for the Congress. Never mind that even this false victory was due to massive bribery of voters by giving 80% pay rise to useless civil servants, forgiving all loans of farmers and dishing out taxpayer money to rural people for not doing any work under the MNREGA scheme. This resulted in double digit inflation, a jump in fiscal deficit, fall in the rupee and falling growth rate. We still do not know whether Ms Sonia Gandhi has renounced her Italian citizenship or whether we are the only country in the world ruled by a foreigner. However, in contrast to the US our freeloading press stays humbly respectful no matter what our politicians say. One minster said that people are happy to spend on ice cream but complain when the cost of rice or wheat went up by Re 1. Another said that farmers gain from high inflation because they are getting more for their produce as if farmers do not have to buy anything else except food. However, the prize goes to Ms Mamata Banerjee who claimed that a gangrape of a woman was a conspiracy against her government. And she claims to be a woman. It is possible that the callous stupidity of our politicians is because they protected by armed commandos and billions in loot. The press is complicit in elevating them to VIPs and VVIPs. The rape of India is made legitimate by meaningless elections every 5 years.