And so, they’re back. The same incompetent, bloodthirsty warlords that haven’t spared our lives during the Civil War, or our hard-earned savings in recent years. To blindly assume that they will miraculously change their behaviors and habits because the electorate gave them a slap on the wrist by voting in 12 anti-establishment figures is an absolute stupidity, bordering on lunacy. At this freshly elected Parliament’s inaugural session, we watched on as MP Nabih Berri was reelected as Speaker for the seventh time; a person that represents the sad reality of a nation having been deprived, by six previous assemblies, of change, reforms, and progressive thinking A Parliament of dynamism, reforms, and will to progress is the desperate hope of Lebanon. A reformist chamber would give us the energy needed to conquer all the chal- lenges and barriers bestowed upon us by those same elected, and now re-elected, rep- resentatives who