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In reply to the discussion: Final results confirm Islamists top Egypt vote [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)6. How very sad and awful this is for the people of Egypt.
So disappointing.
Will people, and, the world, ever be released from the iron grip of fear instilled into individual and collective conscoiusness by authoritarian fear based religions?
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I am seriously starting to think that some people maybe don't deserve democracy.
TigerToMany
Jan 2012
#3
Democracy has a way of leading to progress. The US was hardly a bastion of freedom...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#25
I don't doubt there's a lot of assholes out there. But the huge majority? C'mon, man.
AverageJoe90
Jan 2012
#36
There has been a quite a bit of evidence of serious fraud in these elections:
AverageJoe90
Jan 2012
#30