Praying for my country's future...
Tomorrow we're having the second round of my country's presidential elections. The choices are horrible, and in my opinion, one is worse than the other.
I will not be voting for someone I want to. I'm choosing not the lesser evil, but the one who may screw up but still let the country keep going, keep developing. I don't want another Chávez copycat, another Morales, another Correa who promises to the poorer, delivers for one year, and then makes the country go backwards at least 10 or 20 years.
Our parents generation, many of us in our generation have worked hard to move on, to move forward. I just hope we all make a wise decision tomorrow and not be stupid for a second, third, fourth, umpteenth time. We're used to a system of easy contentment, of receiving little and staying silent at the abuses of selfish and self-interested individuals who use the name of the people, the name of the poorer, of the ignored ones to fill out their pockets. At the end of the day, we all lose because we're convinced they can do something when in reality, they just want absolute power.
I know that in a way, I will somehow be choosing for corruption tomorrow. But corruption has been and will always be there--be that in larger or smaller amounts. It's five more years of fighting against something we can control versus ten, twenty, thirty years of lies, uncertainty, more poverty, stagnation, and suffering.
Yes, I'm choosing out of fear--fear of losing what many people have fought for since we gained independence from colonialism: development and hope to get better.
I will not take a risk.
I will not be voting for someone I want to. I'm choosing not the lesser evil, but the one who may screw up but still let the country keep going, keep developing. I don't want another Chávez copycat, another Morales, another Correa who promises to the poorer, delivers for one year, and then makes the country go backwards at least 10 or 20 years.
Our parents generation, many of us in our generation have worked hard to move on, to move forward. I just hope we all make a wise decision tomorrow and not be stupid for a second, third, fourth, umpteenth time. We're used to a system of easy contentment, of receiving little and staying silent at the abuses of selfish and self-interested individuals who use the name of the people, the name of the poorer, of the ignored ones to fill out their pockets. At the end of the day, we all lose because we're convinced they can do something when in reality, they just want absolute power.
I know that in a way, I will somehow be choosing for corruption tomorrow. But corruption has been and will always be there--be that in larger or smaller amounts. It's five more years of fighting against something we can control versus ten, twenty, thirty years of lies, uncertainty, more poverty, stagnation, and suffering.
Yes, I'm choosing out of fear--fear of losing what many people have fought for since we gained independence from colonialism: development and hope to get better.
I will not take a risk.