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To complement the reactions about the development of democracy, and my initiative to find a new form for the practice of peoples’ participation in governing themselves, the most important interventions came from a distinguished Egyptian doctor who has lived in America for thirty years, entitled: “The day has come when American democracy collapses.”
“I hope you keep in mind, when formulating your initiative towards the fourth generation of democracy, that the founders of the third generation were the most important of them in America, and from my experience, electing the right person will be prevented by the villagers, the ignorant and the half-educated.. This is not in Egypt, but in the oldest democracies in the world.. Thus, The Economist analyzed the poor state of American democracy. Since they are the largest number of people, they are the controllers of the election results related to narrow-minded individual interests.
The American elections produced Donald Trump, the same rule that brought Erdogan to power and established him in Turkey, no matter what the educated people rejected, and brought Muhammad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood with the votes of those facilitating its religious ideology in Egypt. The democratic system did not take this hypothesis into account, as it is a successful and balanced system in the educated and educated countries, in the more educated countries such as the Nordic countries. The export of the American model has failed in many developing countries, and now it is almost failing in America itself, after it failed before the communist regime in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe… What is the alternative?
Another says: “Dr. Hossam: The article is dangerous because it discusses the essence of the necessarily political and economic dilemma at this time, not only in our dear country, but in the whole world. I liked the division of generational democracy, but I remind you that we see the dictatorial far-right sweeping the democratic world now, so has democracy become a realistic idea that keeps pace with life and technological changes and the current digital revolution, which changes the reality of nations and carries out a mass brainwashing of peoples through intelligence agencies.
The question: Is democracy still an idea in our changing world governed by the virtual will?
I tell everyone that I am aware that all human conditions have changed, and the world around us is changing, and we must link the fourth generation of democracy with the changes of the times. The development we are experiencing was not possible at the time of the start of the third generation of democracy, so something new must be formulated.
A new initiative for governance, in agreement between what we dream of of a civil state and the reality of real power on the ground that does not deprive the country of its human potential or its effective national institutions. An initiative that allows the people to make free choice, and a balance of good choice with a balanced parliamentary system.
We have four years in which we build our vision by agreement and not by demonstrations and revolutions that destroy and do not build, remove a reality and restore its likeness as if we had done nothing. We have an opportunity before we reach the finish line in 2022 for a new start in which Egypt will be a model among the countries. We do not want to find ourselves in the same situation, with the same alternatives, so we repeat the same choices, envisioning different results.
Egypt deserves to think and agree.
