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comment by bigthommoladd
bigthommoladd  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Egypt two years on from revolution

I was in Egypt a few days before the 2013 protests began, and there was a definite anti-Morsi sentiment - people thought he made no notable change and was not much better than Hosni Mubarak. It seems to me, just from some reading and a little personal experience that Egypt has drifted between the two extremes of fundamentalism and a police state, and it makes me wonder whether an alternate system would be any more sustainable, or if it would quickly devolve into total control.