I hear some vague hints on the intertubes about some sort of election for “leader of the free world”. (and I have always wondered: how much of the world is free? and is it “free from ..” or “free of ..” and what is it free from\/of, exactly?)<\/p>\n
But I had to dig for any information about this election, cause hardly anybody is talking about it. Everywhere I go, when people find out I am American, they have no opinions of the election.<\/p>\n
None of the other ex-pats ever talk about it.<\/p>\n
The newspapers barely have any coverage. Dont’ see anything about it on tv.<\/p>\n
It is almost as if it wasn’t happening!<\/p>\n
But once you find any info, it is apparently a big deal (at least to the small minority of people that follow these things). Go figure.<\/p>\n
As far as I can tell from what I read, it is an election between the messiah and the anti-christ.<\/p>\n
Should be a no-brainer to decide, no? After all, who wants to vote for the anti-christ? I mean, besides his evil minions.<\/p>\n
But there seems to be some sort of mixup. No matter where I look, or how hard I dig, there seems to be no clear cut answer on about which is which.<\/p>\n
Some people even claim that they are both facets of ba’al Zebub, and that the one true savior was forced out of the race early on. But that can’t be. How could the true savior lose the eternal struggle between good and evil? Unpossible!<\/p>\n
And it looks like it will be close, with lots of accusations of voter fraud<\/p>\n
to rile up the losers.<\/p>\n
What a great time to be an american. Too bad the time difference makes it really hard to stay up late enough to see how this latest episode of “the great experiment” goes in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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