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The one expression that interests me in these elections manifestos that various parties in lebanon come up with to project a semblance of interest in their useless dissertations is العيش المشترك. The sad thing is they believe their own pretensions.
For some reason whenever i read it, it has the opposite effect on me and I immediately think of a nation made up of savages ever ready to pounce on each other at the slightest chance. Their leaders need to affirm constantly their belief in something none of them hesitates for a moment when it suits him ( and always him) to undermine it.

Needless to say that all the other clauses in those electoral program reek of absolute banality and rancid repetitivness. I am sure the inanity is not confined to one side of politics and that they all believe in our naivety so much so to keep repeating the same worn out ideas decade after decade, generation after generation with very little hope indeed of ever accomplishing any of it.

Yet in our gullibility we all believe in this Cr*p, those lofty ideals, empty slogans because what is the alternative? Facing the hard turth that the country is not a workable entity and it's made up of people who by a mere historic accident ended up sharing the land that made up what became one country. Therefore the deception goes on and as long as there is someone out there to believe it, a lie will always be a lie regardless of how blindly one tries to convince oneself of its veracity.

The question that begs to be asked: Considering that both sides of the political aisle have in REALITY opposing goals for the country, how does one party really hope to implement its program while the country could only be governed at the lowest common denominator that could humanly be possible.
Ex: Feb 14 believes in the two state solution (had they any common sense they should propose that for Lebanon and not Israel/ Palestine) And their opponents want to wipe Israel off the map. How will any of them ever achieve their goal knowing that no one side will be allowed to govern on its own? Only God knows.

As usual the lying and the deception go on, the sheep follow the shepherd as they always do, the parrots mimic all the nonsense their fearless leaders enrich our lives with, and the ostriches bury their heads in the sand and go on pretending until hopefully some western country gives them a visa and free them form this oppressive fate.
A country it never was and never will be.