Confessions from the Middle
Nov 3, 2024
Tuesday seems years away. Good lord, let it get here. Looking from the inside of America, there is no good outcome. Harris will no doubt win the vote. And the Chump will declare a rigged election. UNLESS he carries one or two key states. Fuck the rest of us. It all comes down to the bourgeoisie concept of electors, which is somehow baked into our political DNA.
I cannot even explain this oddity to the average US citizen, let alone the foreign traveler who can speak three languages. Yet I can point to the crazy evidence presented every bloody day during the election season, which is force-fed to the American commonwealth as the “battleground state” mentality.
I believe in democracy and know we can do this better. Choosing authoritarian rule is not that.
Breathing deep as the clock ticks these next few days.
Yet, somehow, it seems so pointless. I never imagined 70 million people would vote for a used car salesman in 2016, let alone in 2020. But here we are again, playing with the weight of Damocles's sword.
Why? When it could be so simple. Let the people vote.
The internet and modern communications have changed the landscape such that doing otherwise would be foolish.
