1) Is the Pakistani military/ISI/Deep State in general (and specifically at the senior levels) actually ideologically sympathetic to violent Islamists/jihadists, or is their support of said groups mostly a cynical means of maintaining the military-intelligence Deep State’s power in Pakistan?
2) Same question as above but re: the Pakistani military’s strategic obsession with India, at least in more recent years (even as India itself has become more uh, Bad in terms of politics and religious hatred—not exactly unlike Pakistan!)?
3) Is it accurate to say that Pakistani civilian leaders and political parties exist serve at the pleasure of the military?
Curious when this will be answered, if it is at all. I don't think this is something any of the Subcontinental AAPI diaspora posters are equipped to answer, nor would their counterparts in other countries.
if the United States had Canada's federal party system (i.e. Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP), what in general would our congressional elections look like?
What sorts of places would vote NDP and where would vote Liberal? Which states (or districts) would support one over the other by the largest margins?
How closely would the Conservative vote match the irl Republican vote? Where (if anywhere) would Conservatives significantly overperform and underperform relative to the GOP?
Participated in the
UK with US-style parties and vice versa thread some time ago so I feel qualified to answer.
The one demographic I have any confidence a CA Conservatives-type right-of-center party would overperform against the US Republicans would be ethnic Chinese. (This isn't to say that Chinese Americans would actually favor the hypothetical Conservative party over the Liberals or the NDP.) Canada has a higher proportion of non-indigenous visible minority groups than the US does and the CA Tories probably need to pander to those ambiguously brown people with funny accents and weird food more than the US GOP does. But I do actually think there are cultural factors inherent to Chinese culture-
and the areas of greater China that are overrepresented among the Anglosphere diaspora- that would make Overseas Chinese more receptive to right-of-center political parties than the other Confucianist East Asian groups, let alone non-Confucianist East Asians or South Asians. Recent shifts and trends within local NYC politics seem to suggest this, as do pre-pandemic voting patterns among Chinese Canadians.
(Re: "the rest of Confucianist East Asia"- I'm tempted to argue that Vietnamese Americans might be more supportive of a Liberal-type party than most would expect, but that's partly based on how Vietnamese Australians seem relatively supportive of the ALP, and the Canadian Liberals allegedly being the party of Canadian nationalism/federalism).
