One way or another, in a week or so it will all be over in the US of A and the process will start kicking into high gear locally.
In my opinion we, the geek.hood, have the following broad options that we can choose one (or more, or variations) from:
- Vote ANC and do everything possible within our individual circles of influence to ensure that we get the Marxist vision of socialism and not the Stalinist version.
- Vote for an opposition alliance and do everything possible within our individual circles of influence to ensure that we build a country where the rule of law and the constitution guides the political process and not the whims of whichever individual happens to inhabit the presidency at any point in time.
- Don’t choose. After all, apathy is a venerable political stance within our country and no one will look at you skew if you still complain about the choices everyone else made.
- Let politics be politics and continue working on long-term visions of some kind of collective grassroots sustainable future with crypto-anarchic tendencies and a whole lot of ubuntu thrown in.
- Do a Rincewind and rrrrrrrrrrrrrun!!!!
Amandla! Wethu!
October 28, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I say vote for an opposition party. The last thing the ANC needs is yet more support. What they need is some opposition to reverse the one party state of affairs.