Why would want even want to cling to power in a country where one is hated?

[howard112211]

I simply don't get it. Thousands out on the streets tearing shit up and dude wants to hold on, uses force and whatnot. I'm sure he's got enough money stashed somewhere. Why doesn't he just pack his shit, and move to an island, and spend the rest of his days screwing prostitutes and playing video games. Idiot...

[JuniperLea]

1. Power hungry people are much like greedy people...

Don't try to make sense of it. It will only give you a headache.

[arcane1]

2. I guess for the same reason billionaire CEO's keep showing up to work each day:

They are psychopaths.

[justiceischeap]

3. Cause power means more to them than being liked. (eom)

[Junkdrawer]

4. Do you think it's easy to find people that ruthless?

If it were, Mubarak would have been replaced long ago.

[RKP5637]

5. Ego, greed, power, money, narcissism, egomania, sociopaths, etc. - the list goes on and on. They

don't think like most of us do.

[Ian David]

6. He can't get a moving van to his palace until next week? n/t

[RKP5637]

10. LOL!!! n/t

[DesertFlower]

7. they said he's former military which

means he would have a nice lifestyle.

[mikita]

8. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ n/t

[Fumesucker]

9. Because power is the ultimate addiction..

For those susceptible to the addiction there is nothing on this planet more addictive than power, more than sex, more than crack, meth, nicotine or any other drug.

[JVS]

11. That's easy. I can think of two reasons off the top of my head.

The first one is just the fact that power allows you to benefit yourself and your friends.

The second is less selfish. A reason to maintain power despite being unpopular is that you are firmly convinced that your opponents will fuck up badly (or betray the public interest) enough that the country is better off under your unpopular reign.

[kenny blankenship]

12. have you ever encountered a DU poster who, no matter how hard their posts are unrecced,

nevertheless insists that they are 100% right and their critics 100% wrong, and that, despite the heavy barrage of unrecs that inevitably pound their posts to oblivion, they also somehow represent the opinion of the majority and all GD should bow to their wisdom?

I imagine Mubarak is kind of like that.

[snagglepuss]

13. Being hated makes being powerful all that more attractive. It's a form of

sadistic pleasure.

[polly7]

14. I think he believes his son should and will replace him, gotta hang onto

the throne until then.

(edit for spelling ......... cause I can't spell worth *t!)

[Gato Moteado]

15. i thought you were talking about bush/cheney

nt

[IDemo]

16. First thing that came to my mind, too n/t

[jannyk]

17. Because it's good to be 'King'! nt

[iamtechus]

18. Psychological mechanism called "denial". The party's over but he just can't accept it.