07-10-2013, 01:45 AM
(07-09-2013, 10:50 PM)Occhidiangela Wrote:(06-13-2013, 03:08 PM)Jester Wrote: Democracies seldom regress,Do you know how to say that in Egyptian?
Heh. Not looking so good there, although I hold out hope that it will get better rather than worse in the medium term. We'll see.
To defend my quote somewhat: I believe my next two words after that were "once established," by which I don't just mean there was something that looked democracy-ish for 15 minutes, before descending into chaos. I meant a system that had "established" a record of democratic rule and peaceful transitions of power, so that it was the norm rather than the exception. Not that those can't backslide too, of course. But it's rare, so far.
-Jester