Cmv:it is better to have a corrupt but tolerant government than an effective intolerant one.:
This is in relation to the most recent Indian election in which the Hindu Nationalist Narendra Modi won in a landslide. I can see nothing good in Narendra Modi in the long term. Although it may be true that he has a good economic record in Gujarat he will destroy the religious toleration for which India is famed. It would be far better to retain Congress, who although they are as corrupt as all hell are not responsible for the massacre of Muslim Pilgrims (the 2002 Gujarat riots where up to 2000 Muslim pilgrims were massacred and Modi was accused of complicity).

Aside from this specific instance, is it better to be tolerant and corrupt than effective and intolerant in the abstract?