Democracy

If you can imagine the scene. People with massive egos and not a little personal bile, opposing their ideological enemy, each side seething with contempt for the other, ignited by caustic and abusive comments from the leadership.  



This is not a Tahrir Square stand off where people with deep concern for what they see as a "sectarian" take over of the democratic achievement won, just over a year ago. 

It seems, given the petulance of Prime Ministers Question Time and the shallow content of the questions and rebuttals, the Egyptians might give pause for thought before placing too much hope in formal democracy.

The problem within any philosophical concept of how to organise the human condition, is that human beings get in the way.
Are we not our own worst enemy, not being able to see beyond, first and foremost, our own self interest.
A country is stronger when it can identify a common interest and draw on the strength of political leadership that collectively can put aside ideology, for the common good. We have so many problems in the society but these problems become the playthings of the political class. These problems are clothed in party prejudice, a prejudice which stops creative solutions, ideas that are rejected because they might have come from the Opposition.