| Mr Khan said: Inevitabilist assumption. It just might take a while, but if you study democratization, this unpleasant phase (tyranny of the masses) is one that can certainly swing into place, though much of that depends on the specifics of how you democratize (namely how the old regime is thrust from power and the framework under which a new government builds itself) Although the whole thing can be fixed if they just have a series of votes leading to a new parliament and a new constitution, with the setup being that they would need more than just the Islamists to approve the constitution. |
Well, using Iran as an example, it seems that if a secular dictatorship is followed by a religious one then the theocrats will also start to wear out their welcome within a generation or so as the children of the original revolutionaries aren't quite as enamored as their parents were. On the other hand, that is a long goddamned time to wait (and even the mullahs are still around), so it's not reasonable to expect secularists and liberals to cool their jets until then. They will either emigrate or revolt.
