On November 3rd we vote for a system of American government.
We choose between democracy or fascism. Republic or dictatorship.
A life of hope and freedom and possibility or a life of cruelty and imprisonment and injustice.
What continues to astound me is how many people do not see this.
And I wonder, do they see it but don’t believe it?
Do they think it could never happen here?
American exceptionalism is not a real thing, though we have been taught to believe in it.
We are not exceptions to the rules of humanity, we are not immune to the insidious takeover of authoritarianism.
Any society made ripe with fear and division, crime and deception and greed, will collapse into chaos.
Under the right conditions, any body will break.
All flesh will tear.
We are made of the same stuff as any other body, any other country.
Just as vulnerable.
This is how it happens.
Is happening.
We are in it.
And this election won’t heal the wound.
But at the very least
we have got to stop the bleeding.
Vote.
.
Photo by Ewelina Karezona Karbowiak
Allison Marie Conway 