Friday June 19, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Fake elections are commonplace in the Middle East.

Most of the time thug regimes falsify results in order to better secure their positions.

Most of the time they are protecting themselves from religious fanatics who want to take over from the dictators.

Irony of ironies is that in the case of Iran, the exact opposite is taking place.

Religious extremists are using elections in the exact same way that their opponents do almost everywhere else in the Middle East.

Religious extremists are rigging the elections – just rigging them the other way.

In reality, it means nothing.
Elections are simply tools to prop up leadership.

In Iran today the rigging is clear and the results were clear from the start.

The problem is that even in dictatorships and theocracies the people sometimes want to feel that there is a slim chance for success.

The thugs running Iran miscalculated this time around.

They underestimated the need that people have ti feel that their voices matter - even in a theocratic dictatorship.

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