The people of Egypt have chosen between the two evils offered to them by the power elite controlling their country. Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, won Egypt’s runoff election by one million votes. In the United States the mainstream media is praising the success of democracy in Egypt, while at the same time admitting that the new President-Elect will be nothing more than a figure head with very limited powers as the Egyptian Military, the day before the runoff election, seized power and dissolved the Muslim Brotherhood led parliament.
This being said, the notion that the will of the Egyptian people has been asserted through democracy is a sham. When Hosni Mubarak was President of Egypt, his will was asserted through a military dictatorship. The same generals that enforced Mubarak’s will over his people still maintain absolute control over the country, and in reality this is what was intended all along.
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