A little comment on the Election

So I know I'm preaching to the converted and I'm well aware many of you will be out on the streets getting beaten and pepper sprayed as I'm happily sitting at a sweet internet Cafe on the Island of Mykonos, Greece, but I just have to express in a public way my disgust and outrage at the Elections.

For the last two years, as many of you know, I have been predicting this, that Bush would steal the election and voting is no longer a viable option in the United States, but the emotional reality has finally set in. It is gut wrenching, harsh, and terrifying on a personal and global scale because America has entered into Fascism and America rules the planet. Elections are now an irrelevant theater spectacle and the extreme right now has the world by the balls. I am walking around this beautiful island on a sunny warm day dispondent and depressed, sitting in Cafes that have the Greek news playing out the horrors of the American electoral process while locals shake their heads in disbelief. Are the Greeks thinking, "how can Americans vote for Bush again?" "How can they vote the Republicans into power in both the house and Senate." Or are they thinking "The election was fixed! If this was Greece, we would have revolution." In Hungary, when the Nazis eased out, and the Fascist Black Cross took over in the thirties, they did so by creating a fictitious election...it was fixed. Fixed elections are the crem de choice of Fascism and America has experienced it not once...but TWICE!!!!!!! How many more times will it take before US citizens realise this is not about elections any more, it's about the rise of totalitarianism and that the religious right will stop at nothing to gain global dominance.

Marching is great, getting arrested is fun, so is messing with the police, and some people even enjoy breaking windows. But it is ineffective. Totally ineffective when it comes to a power so great as the American Right. I had a great converstaion with Hilary at CESTA about this, and she had realized (after going to the RNC protest in September) that resistance movements at the moment are not working. So what is the answer? Perhaps the answer is divestment. Stop paying taxes, stop buying goods, stop consuming, Get an old diesel car and convert it to veg oil. Live simply, on very little, start to rely on your neighbors, your friends your community. We need to fundamentally rethink the way we are participating in this machine and how our actions, and those around us can change this in a realistic and concrete way. We need to be visionary. No more puppets, funny hats and protest signs!!! Let's get serious about how we can not give this totalitarian regime our resources and energy. We need to stop feeding the machine, stop greasing it, make it rust and decay to the point where it simply dies.

I'm sure I will piss people off with this post, but this is important to me. This is where I am at about the US.

I am in no state right now to make long term plans for the future as I am FREAKING OUT!!! But right now, I want to leave America all together and divest completely. Its future is antithetical to the sustainability of this glorious planet and its people. I fear the future with America in the drivers seat. I hope something radical is done by the American people to stop this from spiralling out of control and that this is the start of a wonderful process for global change.