re: #47 researchok

A lot has to do with image.

Do they want real democracy and change or do they just want to ‘look good’?

You cannot claim to want democracy if you are satisfied with the MB representing you. That is the equivalent of saying the KKK can represent the real democratic aspirations of an oppressed people. Repressive groups replacing other repressive groups have nothing to do with democracy- that is about ideological war, with ham fisted leaders at the helm. Democracies don’t threaten other democracies with war.

Elections do not a democracy make. Hamas is proof of that.

Democracies are all about institutions that offer equal protections and access.

We have the current Republican party and it’s more extreme Paulian/Angle/Palin wing. We still manage to survive as a democracy. Remember the MB gets about 10-20% support from the people. That’s about as much as the teahadists.