The people who vote doesn't count, the same for those who participate in demonstrations supporting the system.
What matters is a afew people outside Iran, who think we should run a referendum every decade to prove ourselves to them.
But even after that they would repeat people didn't knew what they were doing. Manipulated mines and votes!
The only successful way to please the west, is to run Iran as follows,
1) Run a referendum on what kind of government we should have every few days (Tuesday might be Communist Dictatorship, Friday could be Democratic Facism, who knows, that's how we should roll). Because if 99% agreed to something on Saturday, what guarantee is there that by Wednesday, people don't want something else?
2) Every law should be also be voted in by popular vote. Dress laws, taxation, what time the municipality cars come to pick up the garbage, toll prices, height of tunnels between cities, and so on. Because we don't let everyone vote on everything, how can we be sure we aren't trampling on their human rights?
3) Everyone should be allowed to run and, to be fair, everyone should get equal time in the campaigns, so that money does not have advantages (imagine the complains we would hear if some well connected guy wins the election, they will say he "bought" the votes). Anyway, last election we had 680 registered candidates. Like last year, each of them will have the opportunity to make two 30 minute campaign ads, each showing twice. That's 2 hours of TV time per candidate, which is 1360 hours, which is 56.6 days. However, it would be unfair to show one candidate at 4pm and another at 5am, so all times should be in the same 2 hours slot, therefore, it would be 680 days, which is almost 2 years. Okay, so we need to start the campaigns now...but wait. If we show a campaign now, and another campaign 2 years later, the one at the end has an advantage. So maybe the solution is to broadcast 680 new channels, and have them all run the campaigns at the same time?
But that's not all. We have to also think about how to do the debates for 680 candidates. Should each candidate debate each person separately? My math is probably wrong, but that's something like 462,400 debates.
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Ooof,
@mohsen, this is so complicated. I have a better idea, let's just make angry posts about the IRI, and talk about "freedom", "human rights", and "democracy", and forget the reality. It's so much easier and it will make me feel like an enlightened person.
تا که مفهوم آزادی چه باشد
اتفاقا مهم ترین دلیل پایداری جمهوری اسلامی اعتقادات شیعی هست
جمهوری اسلامی نه تنها ضعیف نشده بلکه روز به روز قدرتمند تر هم شده
وقتی زمان مخفی کاری 15 ساله تمام شود تازه دنیا روی دیگه ایران رو خواهد دید
مشکل اصلی مخالفین نظام عدم درک شخصیت مردم ایران هست
هیچ وقت نمیشه گفت که ایرانی ها به چی فکر میکنند
مثلا خود شما
تا الان فکر کردی زدن این تاپیک در فرومی که شاید کمتر از 20 ایرانی داخلش عضو هستن چه سودی داره؟
تبلیغ برای خارجی ها!؟
همین برادران سپاه که شما عده ای وحشی بی مغز در نظر گرفتیشون با این مسائل تفریح میکنند
در نهایت چیزی که برات باقی می مونه سر خوردگی هست
چیزی تغییر نخواهد کرد
توصیه من به شما دوری از سیاست هست
One of the most interesting aspects of humanity is to feel that others think like us. Maybe that's an evolutionary trait of when we were in small groups of 10-15 people. That feeling might have enforced group thinking and social bindings and helped us then to survive.
Millions of years later, in a globalized world, it is becoming a hinder. Everyone thinks that majority of the people is aligned with their viewpoints. When Syavash looks at Iran, he thinks that majority of the Iranians think like him and the minority is unfairly ruling, and the ideal future is an Iran that supposedly respects the majority viewpoint. Go to the other forums in this site, and you see the exact same things. An Egyptian posted that less than 2% supported Morsi. A KSA citizen was convinced that all Arabs (except brainwashed Shias) hated Farsis with a passion. That Syrian teenager is sure that almost all Syrians hate Assad except the minority Alawites. The Jordanian poster will tell you that Houthis in Yemen are a tiny cult, and almost all of the Yemens hate them and are happy that Saudis are entering their country to fight the Houthis.
None of them are lying, because they believe it to be the truth.
How do we challenge this? How can we be sure WE are not like this?
This is extremely difficult, because even when you show direct evidence of something to a person who believes in a certain, he will refuse to accept it.
