Earlier today the Egyptian military leader General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi announced that his country’s first democratically-elected leader, President Mohammed Morsi, was being ousted and the new constitution suspended until (ironically) a new election could be arranged. Unrest and violence had escalated in the last week, until the Army finally stepped in to finish off the floundering Muslim Brotherhood leadership. But Morsi himself was the benefactor of the so-called “Arab Spring” movement of 2011, in which the autocrat Hosni Mubarak was overthrown. And the beat goes on… The Egyptian de facto military coup is in sharp contrast to the American electoral system, in which we enjoy
