Iranian Election and Protest Survey

**Noncommunist** · 10-06-2009, 01:56

This is from an assignment from English where I'm trying to get opinions of people on the election and protests in Iran. In the survey, I'm just asking whether you thought the protests were justified and if we should have interfered and what would have happened if they had succeeded as well as some demographic questions.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s...Hu9_2f0A_3d_3d

**Csargo** · 10-06-2009, 02:12

Probably better off posting this in the Backroom

**CBR** · 10-06-2009, 02:20

Yes to the Backroom it is.

**Beskar** · 10-06-2009, 03:12

He can't read the backroom. However, he dislikes communists!!! So no access for him.

**LittleGrizzly** · 10-06-2009, 03:18

I was just hoping to tick some boxes saying strongly like... dislike... ect. didn't expect all this typing....

**Dâriûsh** · 10-06-2009, 10:35

Originally Posted by Noncommunist

This is from an assignment from English where I'm trying to get opinions of people on the election and protests in Iran. In the survey, I'm just asking whether you thought the protests were justified and if we should have interfered and what would have happened if they had succeeded as well as some demographic questions.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s...Hu9_2f0A_3d_3d

Remember to add that it is made for US citizens (poll questions-wise).

**Fragony** · 10-06-2009, 12:17

glad to see you still have all limbs attached. You are from there what are we looking here, can the green wave win?

**Dâriûsh** · 10-06-2009, 16:29

Originally Posted by Fragony

glad to see you still have all limbs attached. You are from there what are we looking here, can the green wave win?

Nah, I'm typing with my feet. Lost my hands when I tried stealing an apple in the Beverwijkse Bazaar.

Seriously though, since I am not living there, it is difficult to say. But the “green wave” cannot expect to win by force as long as the annual number of pilgrims to Mashhad still outnumbers the combined street demonstrators of Teheran, Shiraz, Hamadan, and so on.

Furthermore, the only way a Regime Change™ can occur in Iran, is if it is a political revolution, not a violent one. Many people in Iran still regard the street rioting with the same disapprobation as I assume you, Fragony, would an anarchist street riot outside your door. In the end they associate the reformist movement with street thugs. No, it would have to be a peaceful “revolution”.

In that regard, the ultra-religious folks are politically unessential, they'll vote for the kookiest kook on the list no matter what, but the people who truly put Imadinnerjacket in power were the (mostly rural and poorly educated, a bit rude, I know) lower classes. And I am pretty sure they're currently the most powerful voting group in Iran

The reformist wing (mostly educated urban folks) forgets about them in every single election, and unless the poor folks realize that Imadinnerjackets promises of better times for the poor are unlikely to happen anytime soon, they'll continue to vote populist and conservative.

So until the reformists get the lower classes on their side, they're not going to win anything.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 10-06-2009, 18:47

Originally Posted by Dâriûsh

In that regard, the ultra-religious folks are politically unessential, they'll vote for the kookiest kook on the list no matter what, but the people who truly put Imadinnerjacket in power were the (mostly rural and poorly educated, a bit rude, I know) lower classes. And I am pretty sure they're currently the most powerful voting group in Iran

The reformist wing (mostly educated urban folks) forgets about them in every single election, and unless the poor folks realize that Imadinnerjackets promises of better times for the poor are unlikely to happen anytime soon, they'll continue to vote populist and conservative.

So until the reformists get the lower classes on their side, they're not going to win anything.

That sounds just like Europe and America then...