Egypt owed more than static

How very revealing to see that the only entities not supportive of democracy in Egypt are al-Qaida and right-wing American AM radio hate merchants like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and Glenn Beck. Shouldn’t it be a no-brainer for Americans to support a popular movement in the Muslim-Arab world that rejects violence and conflict in favor of the very same kind of democracy we as Americans claim to champion?

But if you’ve gotten rich selling hate and division on AM radio, you’d be understandably reluctant to acknowledge that one of your two main scapegoats (American liberals being the other) not only don’t “hate us for our freedoms,” but in fact are willing to risk and sacrifice their lives (300-plus) in the face of live fire to demand those same freedoms for themselves and their families.

A pity that only 15 percent of eligible American voters below the age of 30 bothered to vote in 2010. This is precisely the demographic that forced Mubarak out and democracy in in Egypt, while we got instead tea party congressmen and senators intent on gutting health care, education and indeed democracy itself in this nation.

Chris Norden

Moscow, Idaho