Election 2006: The Week After – November 16, 2006

Imagine if you will a living room, in the afternoon.  On the television, in the background, beautiful people, caught up in decadent drama, sobbing in soft focus, soap opera style.  In that room, in the foreground, everyday people erupting with real aggression, fighting and crying, police and paperwork.

A strange image but the strong one we were left with after two weeks of exploring the electoral process

An exploration less like a civics lesson and more like a Twilight Zone-type adventure, getting caught between two tangential but very separate universes:  the multi-million dollar election cycle choosing representatives for people, many of them, caught in a cycle of violence and poverty their representatives seem utterly unrelated and untouched by.

Coming up, a tale of two cycles, told with melancholy and the frustration of futility, in a collection of conversations and reflections.

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