He will be killed by someone close to him. The world will (pretend to) be stunned and a group of Egypt's finest and brightest will draft a new constitution that will include term limits and give the people of Egypt more freedom.

In other words, they will be a 'more perfect' country.

I'm sure he'd have fallen earlier (by outside forces) if Egypt had vast oil fields.

That's democracy for you. Anyone can stand for election and the one with the most votes wins.

Common misunderstanding. Free elections are just one of the principles of democracy, and it's not even the core idea. The core idea, as the German constitution puts it, is that "all power comes from the people". Which is pretty hard to get right, and I don't think any such society exists currently. The goal is to create a situation where all the various minorities can live alongside each other peacefully, with each citizen equally entitled to a significant say in public affairs. It's about balancing fundamental rights against one another (my freedom of speech against your right of not being verbally attacked; my right to material property against my unemployed neighbor's right to basic healthcare; my right to own and use a car against future generations' right to a healthy environment; and so on).

In fact, as soon as there's a real majority, democracy is dead, because once such a majority has established itself, the rest of the population are just spectators without any real power.

Here's a few things that are needed to create a functional democracy:

• Freedom of speech and information. Without sufficient information, there is no way a population can exercise their democratic rights in any meaningful way.

• Public discussion. Just putting everything to a vote doesn't work. The best way is to reach a consensus wherever possible, and compromise on the rest. This can't be done without discussion, and it can't be done by representatives alone.

• Protection of minorities. If a majority situation cannot be avoided, special care needs to taken to allow the remaining minorities to participate in political processes.

• Separation of religion and state. Religion is based on faith and personal beliefs, it has no place in public affairs. If you think something should be done in a certain way, use arguments based on facts, or state it as your personal opinion, but using religion (any religion) as an argument is always wrong, and organized religions tend to indoctrinate people and give them an excuse not to think for themselves. The reverse, however, is important: Respect each others' beliefs.

• A culture of open-mindedness and mutual respect. You can't have a democracy without democrats; people have to value democracy higher than their own individual opinions.

• Education. Without sufficient education, people just aren't able to make well-informed decisions, or support their opinions in public discussion.

In other words, free elections alone don't make a democracy.

He stepped down and left his duties to the military. Or at least that's what's all over TV now.

I've heard from the news that he's moved to Sinai peninsula and eventhough he's granted his powers to the vicepresident, he still has them too. What is more important he can revoke vicepresident's powers at will. Long story short, he still has a power.

EDIT: well, strike my last. Turns out you were right. All in all you're closer to Egypt than I am

Whatever happens, I blame Obama.

He hacking it long time ago, and accesses it just for promoting this statement here and there.

I believe egypt will fall in chaos when Mubarak has gone. And on top of this the war with israel will be inflamed again.

Was it okay when the Jews had to leave Israel because they got conquered by Rome? And then was it okay when the Romans had to leave? And so on and so fourth until the palestinians are told to leave by their British conquerors.

If you answer that with yes then you should have no problem accepting that it is okay for them to leave because Israel is in control.
If you answer that with a no then you should understand that it is definitely much more complicated than how you put it.

If religions did not exist we would just be fighting over something else. (I'm atheist by the way)

Then there wouldn't be Jews, nor Muslims.. And existence of first makes a lot of problems to themselves and often to those surround them. Same with the second, but they've their own lands. Although their expansion also makes problems, but oh well..

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