Posted on 03/11/2011 12:55:27 AM PST by Scanian
There is no democracy movement in Egypt. A handful of Facebook twenty-somethings in Cairo backed by the Muslim Brotherhood brought Mubarak down not because the mass of Egyptians want to vote, but because they want better jobs. Ordinary Egyptians do not think about or understand or desire democracy. They can't support their families because of the crushing weight of a corrupt bureaucracy that squeezes them at every turn. They want a modern economy, and they don't have one.
They are right to care more about jobs than voting, wiser than our legacy media's pundits swooning over their own visions of Egypt's beautiful democratic future. Prosperity and freedom are not things an election can bring the people of Egypt. Prosperity and freedom can be achieved only by a constitutional republic, like the one our founding fathers established, that limits government power and enables a free-enterprise system.
For many in the Democrat Party, property rights are seen as selfish impediments to fairness. In reality, without property rights, you have no life, or liberty, or pursuit of happiness. If we want to share our secret of success with Egypt, elections won't change a thing. Rule of law -- especially with regards to property rights -- is more fundamental.
The challenge of bringing freedom to Egypt will succeed or fall on economic reform. The problem is this: in the Middle East, there is no economy -- only family. The third-world failure to achieve modernity is basic: you can't trust anyone outside your family. Non-Western countries lack the Judeo-Christian ethic to treat your brother as yourself, enshrined in our political system as equal protection before the law. In lands where family rules, laws do not protect you. No one is equal. It's all about connections and corruption.
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Democracy is mob rule. Democracy is a vile, disgusting form of governing that fails every time it is tried.
I am glad we have nothing of that kind in the United States of America.
Even Rush gets really upset when someone corrects him about Democracy vs a Representative Republic.
“I am glad we have nothing of that kind in the United States of America. “
The western world is influenced by Judeo-Christian concepts. That is 180 degrees opposed to the middle eastern Islamic thought.
Why do liberals keep on thinking that if the world just sits around a campfire and sings Kumbaya everything will be ok?
(insert many scriptures about “light” and “darkness” here)
Recent polls in Egypt say more than 85% want hardcore Sharia — replete with stoning, “honor” killings and body-part chopping — to be the law of the land. That tells me all I need to know about the future of freedom there.
As current regimes fall in Yemen and Bahrain, look for the same.
That, more than anything else, is why I don’t support giving any kind of aid whatsoever to the rebel movement in Libya. Yes, it’d be nice to harbor lofty hopes about overthrowing Gaddafi and hailing some new, moderate, high-minded government to replace him. But, that’s not in the cards.
Sometimes, “realpolitik” — painful as it is — presents the only option.
...which, in all its irony, may present the greatest hope against the establishment of a regional, let alone worldwide, caliphate.
That’s an interesting thought.
Indeed.
Take that and stick it in your “professorial” pipe, Glenn Beck.
Many folks in our nation have the wrong idea, even Rush.
On this I certainly agree.
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