MizzNaaa
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government is a LOT bigger than one man.
This right there is basically the core of our problems. The government SHOULD be a lot bigger than one man, but it wasn't back in Mubarak's days. Now with Mursi, the government should be bigger than one illegal theocratic and extremist brotherhood but it was. We weren't revolting for the removal of Morsi, we were revolting for the removal of the whole brotherhood who took over the WHOLE government and were actively working to seize all positions of power. They were spreading like a disease in all crucial positions (and non crucial) of power in Egypt.
I fully realize that it's me stooping down to their level when I say they are a disease but that is the truth. They wanted to be the 2nd Mubarak's regime with an islamic flavor. They wanted to be treated like untouchable gods, have all the wealth, money and power they could with no questions asked. It's very difficult to give a clear image of how it was they were ruling Egypt because it would take days and pages and pages of writing to give you a detailed rundown of what they did similar to what Mubarak and his Regime did.
For what it's worth though, that's how it was...they ruled in tyranny and expected us to bend over and wait another thirty years before another revolution (I kid you not that's what they said down to the letter on multiple occasions)>
@Shira
Call me a pessimist, but that article is too 'rainbows and butterflies' for my taste. The truth is, Egypt's got a LONG way before we see any real change. You guys don't fully realize what it's like here. Egypt is drowning in corruption. There is corruption to be found in every nook and cranny. It's systematic corruption that has basically become everything that we are and everything that we do. The change Egypt needs is so fundamental, we literally need to pull everything down from the root for things to change.
Do I think removing the brotherhood and handing it to the technocrat government is going to turn Egypt into a country that upholds the law, ruled by institutes as opposed to individuals where democracy will finally thrive and economy will replenish and we'll finally become a true economical power? Hell no. But it's a step forward.
The amount of setbacks we have faced from outside international influence and interference as well as national and inside interference is monumental. And it's only a fraction of what we are going to face, but so long as we keep fighting, we'll keep moving forward and in many years, maybe not in my lifetime but possibly in my children's, if I ever have any , things will finally be on the right track.
However, to think that changing a government with another is going to change everything is in my humble opinion quite naive. Rooting out corruption so deeply widespread will take time and effort from people who truly believe in this country and her people, and I'm yet to believe that we have found those people. Not the ones we have now, not the ones we had before. The crucial thing to keep in mind, in my humble opinion again, is that we are forcing change. It was a miss in 25th of January, it might well end up being another miss after 30th of June; there are no guarantees that the next government won't be as corrupt and non-revolutionary as the Muslim Brotherhood, but eventually it will happen. So long as people keep fighting for it, it will happen.
That's why we removed the brotherhood, that's why we're still struggling with people supporting the brotherhood. I fully believe it was the right choice and the right decision, but doesn't guarantee good change any time soon.
tl;dr:
Removing the brotherhood was a good move, but that doesn't mean that the revolution is over or that things are good and well. It will take time. Long time.
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