Protests in Egypt

Janson wrote:

comicgeekelly wrote:

Janson wrote:That makes no sense. They may have a stronger hold on those that are still following them, but nobody else will be listening to them. They might make up new rules, but if nobody follows them to they really have power? No, they don't. Like say 300 people choose not to threat politicians with the respect they want, but they do have 175 people that do. Which group has more power? If you said the 176 people you'd be wrong.

The 176 have more power. If people stops paying attention, who's making the decisions? The people with power. As long as they are making laws and upholding the current ones they have power over everybody that lives in the country. There will never be a day where this country could work without a government. I really don't think that you have any idea as to how the government works.

Yes they might make the laws, but if no ones gives a shit about them except a minority they won't be enforced well enough to work or at all. Which is sort of what happened in Egypt, there were more people acting against the rules of those in "power" so really they were the ones with the power, the only problem is they want to replace the former power with a new one. I don't remove a rotting mess under a drip only to put something else there and hope it won't rot as well. No I don't put anything there until the leak that was dripping has been fixed. The US was backing Egypt's leaders, the people of Egypt didn't like this so they rose up against it, then the US jumps on the bandwagon with other countries that that are just as much to blame as Egypt and supports the revolt/coup d'tat. I know that's the extreme cliff's notes version but that's basically what happened. So I see to core causes to this problem 1. If there is a ruling class some one will always get the short stick and fight for power. 2. If people who lived far away would mind their own damn business things would be far better for everyone. Also these political ideals are hundreds and even thousands of years old and very much outdated and were designed for localized situations. Now don't get me wrong I'm not promoting anarchy, there needs to be rules, but this can be done with a collective rather than a ruling class.

Janson wrote:Not unless you count sales tax.

Janson wrote:Because it makes no sense to me why you would want to follow politics. It's boring for one thing