The Muslim Brotherhood : Egypt

Congratulations. This win, this announcement, and the recent power curbs to the  Egyptian presidency show that the Egyptian military knows, if they know nothing else, that they had better
proceed with caution regarding the revolutionary spirit of the Egyptian people.
The win by Mr. Morsi shows the former powers that be:  the Egyptian people will not accept
the status quo.
Making the announcement shows those in power acknowledge the Egyptian people demand to
be able to hold their government accountable for election results.
The curbing of Egyptian presidential powers before the announcement of a president shows that the
military and 'Mubarak' infrastructure know not to leave room for religious or extremist dictatorship.
It also shows how reluctant the military and former power brokers are to have their own powers clipped.
The Egyptian people do not intend to be degraded or disenfranchised by anymore dictators.
The Egyptian people do not intend to be further degraded by any military hunta.
The Brotherhood has a mandate because they were the most democratic model available for the
changes people wanted. Muhammad Morsi, the world now knows, has won the election.
Mr. Morsi must know as well, to proceed with caution.
He is not wanted as a Supreme Leader, and he has to keep that in mind.
I listen to Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-American journalist revolutionary try to explain the people's
position to political junkies, puzzled they don't readily understand the uniqueness of her cohorts'
positions.
In a nutshell, it takes a bit of time to dislodge sixty years of intractable political dictatorship, funded
year after year at rates of a billion plus dollars a year.
Why is that difficult for established political cheerleaders to understand? I get it.
I am so overjoyed there are people. The Egyptian people have shown us there is still such a thing as
'a people'. In America, we seem only to have factions of a people: factions, and factions, and factions.
 Egypt has that as well; but many of those factions seemed to have come together with a common
purpose as regarded their becoming a representative democracy. Apparently, they will puzzle the rest
out later. Not everyone has or maybe ever will have a Tahrir Square moment. But I feel immensely
proud to have witnessed that of a people who do have it.