Egyptian strife with hundreds of deaths in the
post-democracy phase of the Egyptian Evolution presents a significant challenge
to the intellectual batteries of the Obama administration regarding maintaining
a consistent foreign policy. If the evolution against President Hosni Mubarak
was a political intafadah that received tacit military support the evolution
removing President Morsi was an overt act of General Sisi and the Army to stop
the evolution of the elected Morsi Government toward a non-democratic
theocratic state of the fundamentalist kind. Plainly the efforts by Muslim
Brotherhood Morsi sympathizers to demonstrate for restoration of the Morsi
government that have been met with the hard edge of military control for civil
order lack an element of understanding that democracy is more than an
opportunity to take political office and install a politically proprietary
regime.
In the United State of America the Democrat Party
since John F. Kennedy's assassination have taken a turn toward the decay of
nepotism and election of relatives to the highest office in addition to the
egregious error of selecting lawyers to be chief executive officer.
One would not elect a lawyer to be the captain of
a ship or the President of a Health Corporation and government also requires
the imagination and drive for creativity not known to be common attributes of
those practicing the legal profession. The Justice Department has need of
lawyers with a sprinkling of a few in the legislature to assure that laws are
made with legal coherence, beyond that an overabundance of lawyers tends to
bring legal wrangling and political gridlock as litigation becomes the
essential attribute of leadership. Democrats have evolved from the best of
ordinary citizens to royal succession.
The American Republican Party since Ronald Reagan
has forgotten what populism is. Populism joined with intellect and vision are
political skills of the highest order. Perhaps a Condi Rice Presidency in 2016
could bring an element of creative leadership to the Republican Party-who can
say? Egyptian political evolutions still need to find a balance near the
democracy compass point of true north. The swings of the pendulum of
evolutionary change from left to conservative, fundamentalist right is commonly
driven by a failure to comprehend what populism is and how to use it to lead
the people willingly to the just and best state of affairs of the general
social good.
The Muslim Brotherhood ought to take a page from
the playbook of Mahatma Gandhi on non-violent resistance and work toward the
next election as probationaries proving they too support democracy without
violence and without suspension of the legislature or judiciary in order to
evolve a fundamentalist theocracy if they win again. The military perhaps
without covert U.S. political encouragement from the Obama Administration
perhaps believes they nipped in the bud the establishment of an extreme right
Muslim Government that would run roughshod over the political civil rights of
Egyptian citizens. While one may sympathize with the proscriptions against
homosexuality of Mohammedanism, the repression of free expression and rights of
women to fully engage in economic and social liberty make it difficult for
advocates of democracy-in-itself to acquiescence in the elevation of the power
of the Muslim Brotherhood to non-Democratic levels of state power as developed
during the Morsi administration.
The right to evolve against a corrupt government
that inimically destroys the civil rights of democracy that are implicit
elements of a democratic society is recognized in the U.S. Declaration of
Independence, and one would think that Egypt too will have it's own right-to-evolve
against a corrupt government item in it's own declaration of Independence from
non-democratic rule.
Jesus Christ was the fundamental liberator of
mankind from the oppression of corrupt secular political and social power yet
today even secularist supporters of democracy confuse the relationship between
faith, sectarianism and secular political power tending to classify such into
absolute Platonic forms or categories for-themselves and in so doing acting
without comprehension of the transcending values of all. The struggle to be
free from corrupt and oppressive power exists in sectarianism as well as in
secular society. Authoritarianism can exist in secular and in sectarian society
and hence there is no fundamental label or kind of political behavior that when
implemented guarantees a natural peaceful balance with liberty and justice for
all. The Muslim Brotherhood can well serve to strengthen democratic evolution
in Egypt by taking up the way of non-violence led by the Lord Jesus Christ and
applied in more recent time by Gandhi in the Indian evolution against British
Imperial rule.
The Muslim Brotherhood should evolve against not
only itself and it's tendency toward pointless violence-for it is a natural
majority political power in Egypt and puts itself out of power through radical
undemocratic developments, it should evolve toward peace and non-violent
resistance to undemocratic state and social traits that disturb the individual
pursuit of conscience, happiness, contemplation of God and effort to implement
a moral, descent and just society without the inhuman extremes of concentrated
wealth and power than oppress individual and social creativity, free
enterprise, spiritual and ecospheric development.
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