[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

The ideologues fail again and again and again. They only succeed at denying their persistent failure. Such is the theme of this article. Egypt swallows up Marxist drivel and deposits it as waste in its limitless sands.

One line in particular spoke to me:

The last election didn't fix Egypt. There's no reason to believe that another one will. Elections did not fix a single Arab Spring country. They didn't fix Russia. They won't fix China.

I would add, "And they did not fix the US."

[EternalVigilance]

Another great piece of work by Greenfield.

[tomkat]

Our founders, understanding the 'vote' between two wolves and a sheep, established a republic precisely because democracy, per se, was anathema to most of them.

I can't help but hear the echo of Churchill's spirit in Greenfield's work.
Relentlessly rising to rationally expose the stark truths of our time, only to be ignored or ridiculed by an oppostion deparately clinging to its militant ignorance and graveyard whistling.

Imagine a Congress with several dozen such courageous voices . . .

[theBuckwheat]

The story of Genesis and Exodus is that God used Egypt as a metaphor for the world of sin and death, from which we all must escape by miraculous intervention and deliverance.

God also inspired a time when all of Egypt would be forced to observe His Feast of Tabernacles, a time that pictures the fruits of His salvation. see:

Zechariah 14:16-19 MKJV

(16) And it shall be, everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

(17) And it shall be, whoever will not come up from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, even on them shall be no rain.

(18) And if the family of Egypt does not go up, nor come in, they shall have no rain, but the plague with which Jehovah shall strike the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

(19) This shall be Egypt’s offense, and the offense of all the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

[golux]

Another Knish triumph, another day of meaningless drivel from Washington’s “intellectual elite.”

[GOPJ]

It did not occur to them that the reason Egypt wasn't England had nothing to do with elections and everything to do with the culture of a broken country that hasn't gotten all that far past feudalism, and whose "modern" face was slapped together by European colonialism and local dictators borrowing European ideas and applying thin layers of them across the surface of a much older culture.

The reason people like Hillary and Kerry 'missed' the above brilliance was because Hillary and Kerry got to where where are using manipulation and guile - with a thin layer of pseudo-intellect cover used to fool the masses into thinking there's 'substance to their thoughts and appetites' ....

[varmintman]

The last election didn't fix Egypt. There's no reason to believe that another one will. Elections did not fix a single Arab Spring country. They didn't fix Russia....

I'd leave Russia out of that equation. Something does in fact appear to have fixed Russia.

[MinuteGal]

Greenfield is one of the most brilliant thinkers and wordsmiths in the political writing arena today.

Leni

[Billthedrill]

Great stuff. The defining characteristic of a "progressive" is that he or she believes in identifiable historical processes that run from one state to another, supposedly higher state. That path may meander but the destination of this "progress" is only in one direction, hopefully toward a better world.

This model works only in the broadest of terms and the narrowest of bounds. Clearly with respect to forms of government in human history we already see cycles, not linear progress: Athens, for example, cycling from aristocracy to oligarchy to democracy back to oligarchy and finally subsumed under monarchy until that failed and the cycle started all over again. Golden Ages occur, to be sure, but they aren't an end state. That's the bad news. The good news is that we appear to be in one. More bad news, however - it won't last.

The history of Egypt is one of government imposed from the outside: the Hyksos, the Sea Peoples, the Assyrians, the Kushites, the Nubians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs. All of those proved ephemeral. Why anyone thought imposing Democracy from the outside would end any differently is a bit of a mystery.