"I will be voting for freedom and for jobs," one Tunisian said.
It is not the government's job to give anyone a job. This is the very corruption that has incited Arab peoples across the Middle East to rise up against their leaders.
The socialist impulse bred the dysfunction and dictatorship which young people throughout the region rose up to protest and replace. Democracy with handouts leads to more tyranny. If this is the widespread attitude of many in Tunisia and the greater Arab world, then it is a harbinger of worse to come.
The Tunisian election is a parody of political power. 11,000 candidates, 80 parties, and many clueless voters so unskilled in politics, unlearned and illiterate, there are still many more questions than answers. This motely rabble is electing an assembly to rewrite the nation's constitution. No learning, no common interest in the welfare of man apart from ethnic or tribal considerations — this in not Jeffersonian Democracy in the making.
Worse, the largest party guaranteed to secure the greatest number of seats in the Tunisian Assembly is an Islamist Ennahda party, already setting the stage for a rise in Islamic nationalism, Sharia Law, and hostility toward the Jewish State and Israel.