badgenome said:
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. |
Right, but it's certainly been more civilized than Iran so far, and I just assumed that Morsi would be more aware that he is answerable to the whole of the Egyptian people just as much as to his actual voters (in these circumstances, at least), and that the Brotherhood would know to tread lightly.
A coup will just negate the last two years, or launch a civil war that could go on for a long, long time...
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