If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to vote not knowing if you’ll get to do it again any time soon, I can tell you it is soul-wrenching. Things feel especially fucked up, since my own parents only got to vote for president for the first time when they were close to my age.
Never, ever take that right for granted if you have it.
So not quite the last time, as we have to vote again on the 28th. Doesn’t look good, though. Meanwhile, I’m taking it one day at a time. Here’s Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum explaining why we’re so frightened.