Parties are the most civilized groups that gather a group of people who share the same thoughts and principles and aim to get the majority in a certain country in order to apply their thoughts and principles when reaching the power.
I don't agree with you that parties in Lebanon are the problem.
The problem in here is our rotten political system, the sectarian system in Lebanon classify people based on their religious view, the Lebanese parties have no role.
Since our independence The Lebanese people are a group of tribes(Christian tribe; Shiite tribe; Sunnite tribe etc..) and every tribe has his own leader who take a party's name as a cover.
Take FPM for example, if you take a look to its principles, goals and History, you will find in it a very ideal party that may offer you a certain hope in making Lebanon a modern civilized state.
The founder of FPM (General Aoun) is an honest sincere and patriotic man, he is secular and not the son of a certain feudal leader.
But what happened when FPM started to involve themselves in the political game?? the party is being destroyed day after day and its principles are becoming a hard dream to achieve..
why??
it's not GMA's fault nor FPMers fault... but the current Lebanese system is preventing any creative and reformist thoughts of being applied.
As long as we are living under this rotten system where we are classified based on our religious view, and where every sect is a tribe, NOTHING will change. even if you had the most strong reformist party in Lebanon you will fail to achieve true change and reform.
The only problem is the rotten sectarian system that cannot be changed except by an armed revolution or we will stay like this for million of years.
Sadly, nowadays the majority of Lebanese people cannot make by themselves a modern state with a civil law and where people are considered citizens not sects. and this is due to many reasons(civil war, being raised on sectarian thoughts...).
such a modern and progressive reform should be implemented by force, and with time people will be convinced that it is the best for them.
We need a revolution that establish a temporary dictatorship in order to start building everything from Zero: a new modern constitution, and new educational program that raises new generations on the principles of patriotism and loyalty to our nation not to our religious view. even this will take us many years to evolve.. but we should start with it anyway because it is the only solution, or else we will keep living in this retarded zoo forever.
__________________
ويل لأمة تكثر فيها المذاهب والطوائف وتخلو من الدين
|