AS the country absorbs the enormity of the insult inflicted by those who purportto governus in our name, and as the worthies themselves grudgingly confess to having linedtheir deep pockets, the bewildered Indian can experience nothing save outrage and shame.Can it be that these are the politicians we actually deserve? God forbid! Unfortunately,in this sab chor hain national mood the real loser is not Shri L.K. Advani, but thevoting citizen. The dwindling depositary of faith he has in democracy has been furthereroded. If some canny, and possibly crazy, general could organise a military coup, hemight find scant popular resistance to his schemes.