Today is election day in the states, and by the time I get home tonight, the fate of the world will be sealed. I'm sure the people in Iraq are watching the events unfolding in the US today with more attention than they would their own election, judging their conquerors for their own use of the system that they, the Iraqi's, had imposed upon their nation.
I personally would vote for Kerry, given that Bush's reign over the last four years has been one of the most destructive ever chronicled in US history. However, if there are any American citizens reading this, I urge you not to take my word for it. The only peoples who have anything to gain from Bush's continued reign are large businesses, religious zealots, and the Saudi oil barons. Those in the US middle or lower classes of income only stand to lose, not only their standing within the US, but the respect of the rest of the world. You can ignore what the rest of the world is saying, but not what the rest of the world is doing.
The fate of our future, and our children's future, rests in this election. The results of this evening will shape the type of world that my children, and my children's children will have to live in, much as the President's of my grandparent's era shaped the Cold War for my generation, and my parent's generation to mend.
The world we live in has changed, indeed, but not as Bush and Kerry would have us believe. The world is not "Post 9/11". Terrorism existed long before the tragedy that unfolded that morning. In fact, the US had experienced their own home-grown version of it under the attacks of Timothy McVeigh. Was his bombings a warrent for an international War on Terror? No. Why? Because there was nothing to be gained at the time, since the initial threat came from the interior.
Whether it's either Bush or Kerry that gets elected, remember, both will try to use your fear against you. The War on Terror is just that, a tool to keep everyone the world over ductile. To be molded into the ideal supporter, and into the paranoid parents that we know we've become. Security is killing the liberties and freedoms that we died protecting. And now we're dying for the security thats killing our liberties and freedoms that we died for.
Dead is dead?
If you could fight for freedom or security, which would it be? And remember, they are not the same thing. Security does not beget freedom.
In other news, it is likely that less than 50% of the population of America will vote in this election. Way to exercise your duty, folks.
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