Protesters enraged over soaring unemployment and corruption drove Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power Friday after 23 years of iron-fisted rule, an unprecedented popular uprising in a region dominated by strongmen who do not answer to their people.Governments are interesting things.
Even the most dictatorial ones stand only because enough of the people ascent to their legitimacy.
No government can stand if a critical mass (and much smaller than the majority) of the people decide it is no longer legitimate, and refuse to be governed.
I am sure officials in Beijing are paying attention to this.
They were almost there in 1989, and that fuse still smolders.
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