But politicians become meaningless if almost half of the time of the country's existence has been under the clutches of military dictators.
Spock bhaijan. Does your definition of 'dictators' only go as far as the military, or do you include the political parties that talk about democracy but fail at the first hurdle of democratic process in the way their parties are run. Spock bhaijan, time to call a spade a spade, rather than rhetoric for the sake of rhetoric. :)