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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I also wonder -- seriously -- whether democracy in the ME is such a good thing. If Iran's voters are a clue, then I really wonder. And worry.
Bluntly, I'm pretty fucking down today.
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Call me naive, but I think that if people have good jobs, they're not as likely to sit around in the coffee house or marketplace all day and talk about how much their life sucks and start planning on how they're going to make everyone else's life suck too. They're at work, and then they're at home enjoying the fruits of their labor. And if the rewards for working are good enough, they don't want anyone else fucking around with their nice life.
I think stimulating the economy in a meaningful way for the average ordinary people in a community leads to stability. People want to get more involved in their communities if they are invested in those communities and have something to lose. If they have nothing, losing their lives in a suicide bombing or their rights in an election isn't that big of a deal. They don't think they had anything to lose in the first place.
I don't know how to go about getting the people to concentrate on their own communities and lives, but I think that, Sebby's rants aside, meaningful jobs are needed in the middle east more than anything else if we're looking for stability.
