'democracy' is kind of a funny word.
when your government controls large sections of the media, has tremendous influence over which opposition groups are chased by the military out in the toulies, and runs as much industry as this one runs, then the sway over voters and the factors at work put a sham aspect on the idea of democracy.
i'm not saying canada and the US are totally not influenced by the same factors, just that egypt's democracy, for the time being, i see as having a glass ceiling of say, mexico's democracy. the economic power brokers in egypt have for a long time been an oligarchy, and not just the copts either.
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