An outrageous act
If democracy is a tool to revive tribal fanaticism and divide people and fragment them, in addition to enhance sectarianism, then it is the worst type of system and we do not need it. We do not want anything that would divide and tear our social fabric. The scene we see nowadays on the sidelines of the ongoing parliamentary election campaign is disgraceful, saddening and shocking to the people of this country and dangerous to its present and future. It is a very gloomy and ugly scene that causes more harm than good.
What does it mean, then, to see a candidate begging voters with humiliation, asking them not to ‘let him down’? What does it also mean to see egals thrown and flying in the air to land on that begging candidate? What is he afraid of and what is he seeking refuge from? He is not drowning, in distress, hungry or naked to ask for such type of support from his people addressing blood kinship with them!
Whoever does this is absolutely after his own gains alone and is not working for the good of his
