Once again we find ourselves locked in a historical choice of which “group” will run the majority of the country for the next four years, with our perfect system the electoral college that we have replicated over and over for 200 years. I can’t help but feel that something has been growing, a distrust or unsatisfactory with this system and potentially all systems at play that has risen, yet the wheel continues because we are scared to change the tire, so scared that a new thing will be so much worse than the current thing that we continue to suffer and stay indifferent. What extremes will the next regime go to to out compete the current one? will i lose my house? will i be able to afford food? will my friends and love ones be attacked in the streets? these are all questions i ask in a election year. Our death cult of the united states has been especially violent this year funding both a war in Ukraine one of the largest genocides of our life time in Palestine of which the death toll has risen to unsustainable numbers so much so that the zines i print from last october, just one year ago are now inaccurate. Here in america we live in constant irony in both dystopia and utopia perhaps we need a new word for our situation, we have illusions of power over our lives and control over politicians through our little check boxes in some booth in a school or other large building, it’s all an illusion of power its like your dead end job or your degree you are working on getting that will put you in so much inescapable debt that you will have for the rest of you life. How did we get here? how did everything about our lives be decide for us by people who aren’t us? what do you have incommon with the person you are voting for because personally i don’t and have never related to any politician. For the last decade and a half all i’ve really know is pseudo political violence these past four years have been calmer due to burn out, liberal complacency, and many trump supporters and proud boys being in jail or facing legal action. The future is unclear as always and only time will tell if we return to the street violence of 2020 or burn the whole thing to the ground all we can do is survive and help those around us and maybe do something cool in between, as i’ve said before just existing is resistance everything you do after that is action.

-Sylo