The Middle East Revolts Are About Food And Dignity, Not Democracy

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The Middle East Revolts Are About Food And Dignity, Not Democracy
from: http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/

The Middle East revolts are about hunger. The prices of most vital food staples such as wheat and corn, have doubled in the past year, as vast numbers of people are unemployed and millions more work but at subsistence pay, leaving them desperate to feed their families.

This is what set-off the revolts: hunger, anger and frustration at unresponsive and uncaring governments. As for democracy, no doubt many people would like that as well, but they lived with tyrants as leaders for many years and as those tyrants are overthrown, it is the armies that are taking control. Hopefully at some future time democracies will be born and flourish there.

But for now, these revolts are about breadlines and a deep desire for human dignity, something that should touch us all as we feel the suffering of our Middle Eastern brethren.

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1. these revolts are about breadlines and a deep desire for human dignity.

This is what set-off the revolts: hunger, anger and frustration at unresponsive and uncaring governments.

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2. Wait....so if an authoritarian regime provides plenty of food

pfft

Of COURSE it's about democracy

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3. lack of democracy means they don't have a way to express their anger at Govt as we do

we have elections regularly where we can vote and try to get rid of people.

yes, hunger was what sets it off. but if they had more freedoms the way they go about dealing with it could be different.