EGYPT AND THE MEDIA; A BARROOM BRAWL

We can believe in democracy with all our heart and soul but at the same time, we know democracy can go wrong. Simply stated, there is only one-way democracy can go wrong and that is to elect a dictator. In fact, the only way a dictator can achieve power in a democracy to have the people elect him or her. This is what happened in Egypt, yet, it seems impossible for the American media to grasp this point. The Egyptian people elected a religious dictator when they thought they were electing a reformer, meaning they thought they were electing someone who would steer them away from Sharia Law and into secular law.  Had Morsi ruled as he had promised to rule, the people would not be in the streets. The majority of the people want to be ruled by secular law, which would have been the case had Morsi not lied and the second he had power (was elected) started to use that power to reinstall Sharia Law. We in the United States know about politicians who lie; we have minority elected governors Scott Walker, Pat McCrory, John Kasich, and Rick Snyder to prove that point.

As most people might suspect, what happened in Egypt, happened because of religious beliefs. They are fighting to shift from a Caliphate to a Democracy. The difficult for Christians to realize what is going on is to discount the seemingly unshakable belief that a God, or in this case an Allah, is somehow all-powerful. Whatever God or Allah represents, voters cannot displace in an election; you cannot vote a supreme being into or out of power. People refuse to make the earthy realization that a supreme being is really a person or group of persons in a backroom. Since birth, the people have had this notion of an “all knowing, all seeing, and all powerful deity” pounded into their minds.  It should not come as a surprise that the people pounding this notion into their heads are the people in the back room, the ones who benefit the most.

The people of he Middle East looked to the United States and Europe, saw what demcracy has done for “all the people” but especially the women, and liked what the saw—in our case a shift from a king to the people. What our media does, especially people like +Rush Limbaugh and +Chris Hayes who claim to be polar opposites but are of the same mold; they confront the government or as they like to proudly proclaim, “They have the raw courage to look power in the eye”. By believing their own BS, they do great harm for a few media rating points.

The old adage is true, “It is easy to rule people if you rule them the way they want to be ruled”. Apparently, the majority of Egyptian peoples want to be rule by secular law. The irony of all of this is that while all of this is going on in Egypt, in the Untied States we have people like Pat Robertson, Sam Brownback, Rick Santorum and many, many more fundamentalists fighting to install Biblical Law, which is the same as Sharia Law, as the law of the land in the United States. Then we have media types wildly swing fists in a worldwide barroom brawl without knowing who or what they are fighting. Que lastima!

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