What are people's thoughts on Egypt's revolution? Were they right to depose the "democratically elected" Morsi or did the action set the country up for further tyranny and instability?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Egypt currently ruled by an army general who imprisons and kills political opponents and journalists? It's funny how Egypt used to be in the news every day when Mubarak was still in power, and now it's pretty much disappeared.
Yeah, and that's the whole issue - Mubarak was corrupt and authoritarian, Morsi was moving the country towards religious, but Al-Sisi is basically a fascist - there haven't been any reasonable options in years, and depending on perspective it's getting either worse or marginally better.
I was in Egypt a few days before the 2013 protests began, and there was a definite anti-Morsi sentiment - people thought he made no notable change and was not much better than Hosni Mubarak. It seems to me, just from some reading and a little personal experience that Egypt has drifted between the two extremes of fundamentalism and a police state, and it makes me wonder whether an alternate system would be any more sustainable, or if it would quickly devolve into total control.