Hitler and Mussolini too had massive popular support.

 It means the country is in such danger that people fear saying anything against the ruling party.

Forget about saying something reasonable against the ruling party — people are even afraid to openly support someone else who says something reasonable.

After all, it isn’t popular support that makes truth true.

Hitler and Mussolini too had massive popular support.

And the British also had the support of those who now belong to the party ruling India.

Does that mean all of those were right?

Shankaracharya, abandoned by society itself, had to cut up and bury his own mother’s body; Marx, when his own daughter died, couldn’t even find people or money to bury her in a public cemetery; Socrates was killed in prison with no one left to ask after him; the Buddha had to leave his homeland and live as a mendicant; Jesus was crucified with no one left to question it — what popular support did any of them get while they were alive?

The popular support that came later — after various people, in various ways, turned them into fictionalized, romanticized characters with no real connection to the actual facts — is nothing but the support of blind faith, support that takes no risk at all.

That is exactly the kind of popular support that Krishna, Rama, Jesus, and Buddha receive today. The kind of support a pillow gets.

Support given purely for the convenience and safety of the one giving the support.

It’s a very common thing that power always attracts dog-like, servile mass support.