Bye, bye Morsi? 48 hour ultimatum from the generals

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The greater evil is a president who's violently rejected by up to 48% of his population and doesn't seem to give a sh!t about it. That's the basic problem... from day one he acted as if he were only the president of the 52% who voted for him and everybody else had ceased to exist the day after the election.

That was more or less Margaret Thatcher's attitude from the day she was elected until the day she was forced out by her own party.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power through the democratic process you know.

Not so; they came to power through a constitutional process, which is not the same thing. They were the largest party in several legislative elections though.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If a victory - maybe even just a potential victory - has happened even just once (and recently) then it is always possible that it might happen in the future: who is to say that the 'new' regime might not become rather unpopular itself in short order? It isn't as though they have any serious plans to deal with the material crisis that destroyed Mubarak and weakened Morsi. Perhaps we enter the strange, ossified logic of Italian and French politics in the mature Cold War - with Islamism acting as a surreal stand in for Communism - except that the Communist Party never had a majority in either country and never had a hope in hell of gaining one. The incentive to play by the rules of democracy - or certainly to never stray beyond there mere bending - does not really exist if the game is not rigged in favour of Order...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It may be worth noting that there was a massacre of Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo today. At least fifty one dead.