The fact is, it has come to this. If you are taken in by the forces that are playing out above your head and you have to decide who should rule you in a martial way, because it will always be someone, then you choose the one that you suspect will prevent the greater evil. Sure, hardship will come upon you anyway. No idea if you will have civil unrest, you Americans at least have the image - and many of you are armed.

Since it will never be the case that nobody goes to the polls, you just go to the polls, even if you don't see much point in it. It's more realistic than wishing the media circus would stop. As the bread and circuses are to continue, they will continue. We are all part of it, whether we like it or not.

The situation here is similar, although not quite as polarised on the face of it. The alternative party that has been fought against here for ten years is a beacon of hope. And as much as we may exalt ourselves over such beacons of hope, they are in a way players who see the harsh reality, speak out about it and are therefore demonised by the establishment and their followers. I often perceive them as having quite a sense of humor. I find in some republicans the same way of humor, more than in democrats. That does not mean that they are all nice but at least likeable. In times where it is hard to find such personalities, one is grateful for what one finds.

This is the story of humanity as a whole and, as always, it will come to an end in one way or another. Some wish for such an end quickly because they fear a horror without end the other way round. But it is also a fact that there are people who neither recognise the horror, nor see it, nor fear it. Because they have united with what others perceive as absolute evil.