They believed that with democracy, problems would be solved. When I asked what the right economic policy for Egypt should be, they simply said that all would be fine, because now they had democracy; and any economic ideas that they did have were well to the old left of anything that had a remote chance of working.
民主必须确定由谁来担当决策者，而不是越俎代庖地完成决策任务。我还记得2011年穆巴拉克总统倒台后与埃及年轻人的对话。他们认为民主是解决一切问题的良方。当我问及埃及应该实行什么样的经济政策，他们只是表示因为有了民主，一切都会向好的方向转化；即使有些关于经济政策的想法，也摆脱不了哪怕仅有一点奏效可能的原有的政策模式。