General Al-Sisi Wins Egyptian Presidential Election With 97% Of Vote

Arab Spring, motherfrickers

It's tough being a secularist in Egypt. First they cut a deal with the Brotherhood, in which they would give the Brotherhood their votes, in a real free and fair election, in return for a piece of the pie after the Brotherhood won, only to be double-crossed as soon as Morsi was sworn in. Then they take to the streets to get the military to orchestrate a coup in order to get a do-over on the election, and the generals screw them too, by returning the country to the same old military dictatorship they had before, only worse. Perhaps they should stop these protests and revolutions, because it seems that they only move them backwards, not forward. A couple more revolutions and they'll all be slaves building giant pyramids.

Are you advocating a military dictatorship for the U.S.?

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Are you advocating a military dictatorship for the U.S.?

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Hell no, buddy. I'm PREDICTING one, if this economy goes south.

Obama has spent the last few years encouraging and making hay off class/race/gender political warfare. Spending and addicting folk to all manner of existentially unsustainable government (QE-based) subsidies. What happens when the morally-owed freebies go away.

There is real antipathy out there in the populous. Just like in Egypt, when they found out their duly DEMOCRATICALLY-elected dear leader (Morsi)...had LIED LIKE A RUG in order to "fundamentally change the nation". Deja vu all over again, right here.

They were given a fair shot and failed to take it. Best of luck to them.

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It's tough being a secularist in Egypt.

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This made me laugh.

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They should have came out with a believable number like the Dems did with Obama.

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Yeah right. Better examples would be the Republicans in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004.

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They were given a fair shot and failed to take it. Best of luck to them.

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The problem with the Egyptian secularists is that they were too impatient. The Brotherhood had lost a lot of the support that it had when Morsi was elected. Instead of imploring the military to overthrow Morsi, it should have demanded that the military guaranee that the Brotherhood not rig or cancel the next election. In the U.S., even when the President's approval rating is in the 20's, he's still allowed to serve out his term before the people "throw the bums out" in the next election.

Creating a democracy is like giving birth to a child. The first free and fair election is the conception. The period in between the first election and the second election is the gestation period, and the second free and fair election in which power is peacefully handed over from one person/party to another is the birth. With Egypt, as with many fledgling democracies, democracy was aborted before it came to life, in this case, by the military.