EGYPT A VICTORY FOR DEMOCRACY

Egypt is in turmoil again. They democratically elected a bad government. That government wrote a constitution that prevented the people from overturning the new government. The people took to the street and forced the “bad” government to resign. Predictably, the Obama haters took to the “headlines” and blamed our president. They writers of headlines miss the point; it is a victory for secular government in Egypt.

Obama backed democracy before the Egyptian election; he swallowed hard but accepted the Muslim Brotherhood president because it was the will of the Egyptian people. However, the Egyptian people made a mistake and they realized it as soon as the new president started to rule. The newly elected Egyptian President, Mahmoud Morsi, had promised a non-religious government but on day one, he reneged on his promise.

Part of Morsi’s education was in the University of Southern California where he received a PhD degree (1982) and served as an assistant professor. Nonetheless, his party in Egypt was named the Freedom and Justice Party, which was the first indication he had learned political deception from his Republican colleagues in the United States—they always use high fluting over patriotic sounding names for political organization for campaign purposes. A more truthful disclosure would have been to emphasize his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, which would have revealed his tendency to rule as a puppet in a caliphate—God in the form of religious clerics tell him what to do. Something he publicly avoided not to follow. That was the second thing indicating he had learned from the American politics: he learned campaign deceit. Scott Walker, Gov. of Wisconsin never said during the campaign that he was going to destroy public service unions until the day after the people elected him. George W. Bush never said during the campaign that he would destroy social security, Pat McCrory of North Carolina said he was not going go along with abortion legislation if elected. These are just two small lies out of hundreds and hundreds of examples. The people took to the streets of Wisconsin and North Carolina in protest but it did no good.  The people took to the streets of Egypt and it did some good. I stood with the people of Wisconsin, the people of North Carolina and with the people of Egypt.

Obama will stand with democracy, which is good “almost everywhere” you find it.  The Egyptian people want a secular government, a government of all the people and not just a government of the men (men only) of one small religious sect. In one way, it is a strange phenomenon that we see happening. Egyptian people are fighting for secular government, a government of the laws of man, while in the bastion of everything that is good, the United States, a number of leaders, especially the redneck Riviera but also in a number of other red states are fighting the reverse course. They are fighting to replace a secular government with a biblical government; the religious leaders, elected and non-elected, like Perry, Brownback, Huckabee, and Santorum will dictate what people can or can not do.

We must stand with Obama for democracy in Egypt but also at home. What we are seeing in Egypt is a victory for democracy and a defeat for Sharia or Biblical Law. 

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