Six days
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Six days.
Six days to retake our Republic.
Six days to prove that love trumps hate.
Six days to not sink further into decay.
It didn't have to be like this. But too many people took 2016 as a lark. Too many people were seduced by propaganda. Too many people didn't think that they needed to participate in the one duty they have as citizens.
Six days to disprove, in the words of DJ Shadow, that tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
But, of course, it won't just be six days.
If we expel the excrescence on November 3rd, this isn't a sign that we can now breath a sigh of relief.
Expelling the cancer is only a sign that we have to be ever vigilant.
What brought him to power didn't germinate with him.
What brought him to power has had a long gestation, a gestation as old as the Republic.
The widening gyre, the center cannot hold.
But we are human beings. We are masters of this world and of our own fates. What we will into existence, for good and ill, will be what we reap.
Not only in this country, but the world over, we are at a point where we decide what future we will have.
The fight in this Republic is only one front in a world war.
It's the much-awaited and bruited Third World War. But it's not a war between states. It's a war within states.
It's a war which will decide what kind of future we Homo sapiens sapiens will bequeath to future generations.
It's a secret, underground war, of which most of humanity is blissfully unaware, but in which all of humanity is taking part.
It's a war which will eventually sweep the world. We're seeing it in Nigeria, of all places, as its citizens rise up against state violence.
It's a war which, however much the mandarins in Beijing may wish it away, will eventually envelop them.
It's a war from which humanity will emerge victorious, because the future is not a boot crushing a face, in perpetuity.
There are no neutrals in this war. This is a war of existence. You will, eventually, have to take a side.
There will be violence. There will be blood. Rebirth is not easy. But this is what we're called to do.
Six days. Six days to plant our flag, and then take the fight all over the world.
They won't know what hit them.