The Egyptian government will replace food and fuel subsidies with cash transfers to poor families, in a swindle to make it look like the safety net is not being unraveled, but it is.
These are the things the opposition needs to be talking about, the real day-to-day issues that impact the lives of the people..not political and religious rhetoric…politics is polarizing…
We keep hearing about how Egypt is divided right down the middle between secularists and Islamists…if that is so (and it is not necessarily so)..it needs to be irrelevant. It represents a changing of the subject by the authorities from the original uniting, empowering message of the revolution. The question wasn’t “secularism or Islamism”..it was “bread or hunger”..it was “concentration of wealth or distribution of wealth”…it was “decent standard of living or misery”..it was “corruption or justice”…
Ask these questions again, and I do not think we will see much polarization