Updates on the election for those of us...

[DLJ]

I'm blaming the American education system and the people who stood by and let it be run into the ground for years at a time.

And in response to Alex K and Pandemonium about why I won't step foot in America now. There are a number of reasons:

1) I don't trust it. What with its gun culture, flawed justice system and propensity to lock people up and throw away the key, add to that a fascist movement seizing power and their existing system of mass surveillance and demonisation of certain minorities and non-Americans, this opens up a whole plethora of nightmare scenarios. In the same way I wouldn't go to other theocracies such as Dubai, Pakistan or Iran. Sure each risk is extremely small, but why take the chance?

2) America will be a very different place in less than a year's time.

3) I don't want my money to go into the American economy.

I confess I was a little nervous about going to Pakistan earlier this year (being an atheist/Jew n'all) because of their open carry policy.

There was a bombing while I there but it was in Lahore (I went to Karachi).

I would feel just as nervous about going to Murika.

But, unlike Pakistan, at least in the US it's now acceptable to grab pussy when I want to.

Which is nice.