In response to "mad"

I guess I should be a little less poetic when it comes to sharing my political views, so that some people have a better chance at understanding what I mean, rather than describing my writing as "over-the-top drama queen stuff".

Dear "mad", you cannot expect me to applaude the elections that brought Aoun to the parliament on such a glory march just because they were contested and democratic. Let's look at the facts for a second, shall we?

Aoun is a one man show, while the opposition is a coalition with well-defined purposes and ideals.

Aoun, who was NOT willing to compromise changed allies like underwear and ended up joining hands with Murr and Franjiyyeh, the paradigms of feudal secterianism and pro-syrian politics.

Aoun said that Lahoud need not step down, Lahoud you know, that swimmer president guy who managed to become everybody's shameful laughingstock. Lahoud who was tapped on the cheeks by Assad the father at the time of his first election. But Lahoud is General Lahoud after all. Maybe it's just a matter of brothers in arms stuff, you know, unconditional military respect, the kind which us civilians are not very familiar with.

Sooooooo... correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me that every action this man has ever taken had one and only one purpose, to get to power. And that's exactly what he did in 1989 and 1990 with his war against Syria and the LFs. He has such a mind-boggling record of overlooking all reasonable and rational considerations to conquer the spotlights and impose his crazy ideals indiscriminately on his followers and adversaries.

But let's give the guy a break for a second and take a look at those who voted for him. They're all after an image, a new fearless leader who doesn't give a damn about anything except what he believes in, right? Well cut me some slack buddy but democracy is not about replacing one tyrant by another. Democracy is not about conducting free elections and henceforth choosing more worthless leaders to add to the pile of shit that we already have.

Democracy is when all the clutter and crap that is still sitting up in its ivory towers, the likes of Jumblatt, Berri, Franjiyyeh, Karame, Murr.. (the list is endless) is brought down and pushed out, and a brand new country is built on a brand new clean slate where all the war criminals and feudal lords have nothing to hope for and nothing to expect.

And that's what the lebanese people will hardly ever be able to change or truly understand, because they're intrinsically divided, intrinsically weak, and intrinsically incapable of rising as a human tide that needs to destroy in order to build again on the ruins of an unworthy past.