Well, many here were so excited about the Arab Spring(!) and so you have it...

[Zorra]

110. "All that is required for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing." ~ Albert Einstein

Your OP distincly implies that we are foolish for supporting a populist uprising against fascism.

This is a progressive board. The most hard core progressives here hate fascism and despise fascists to the very core of their being. For some of us, our burning hatred of fascism is deeply rooted in the unspeakably wicked horrors that fascists perpetrated on the world in the 30's and 40's. Most particularly for what they did do to Jews, and other minorities at that time. For what they did to your family, and so many other families. For the inhuman things that they did to our world. It is difficult not to be inflamed with rage when thinking about these things. We never want to see anything like this again. (Personally, I view all fascists as filthy, vile, destructive, monsters, and am pretty much repeatedly on record here as strugging full time to eliminate RW ideology, which is the core of the diseased black heart of the fascism of the Nazis, from the collective thought processes of the world, ASAP if not sooner).

Anyway, naturally, a lot of us had hoped that more progressive Egyptian democrats would take power. Unfortunately, different fascists retook control of Egypt, and most of us recognize that these fascists may be more of a threat to Israel. This is deeply regrettable, and your feelings are understandable, PCIntern.

But for you to chastise us for cheering on the democratic uprising of the Egyptian people is misguided, IMO.

It's literally a God damned shame that the German people, that the people of the entire world, did not engage in a mass populist uprising against the fascists in the 1930's. Maybe things would have unfolded differently if they had.

Hopefully, the Egyptian democrats will succeed the next time they go after the fascists. Hopefully, all of us will succeed the next time we go after the fascists.

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing."