Pst! The country is there waiting, do I tell it to take a seat or what?

"Violence, crime, and a permanent state of siege create their own patterns of adjustment. First, as bodies pile up — and the gruesome toll of decapitations, hangings, and assassinations is widely chronicled — the human mind loses its ability to comprehend, analyze, and respond to the carnage. One massacre after the is a statistic.” Mexico is not quite there yet, but the phenomenon is nonetheless true, and the tendency is there". [source]

I will be part of the simulation today. I was chosen as part of the Directive Table of the polling station in my neighbourhood. If there's any kind of feeling is frustration, maybe even gloom for all the violence in the states of Oaxaca, Puebla, Guerrero, Chiapas, Veracruz, Monterrey and even some parts of Mexico City.

There are so many things going on it's hard to follow them. Dead candidates, boycott of elections in at least two southern states, electricity shut down in others like Ayotzinapa, trucks full of gas are held by some teachers in Oaxaca... I could go on and on.

Truth is, this is an era of I've never seen "x" thing happen before, one of them, such a disparity and mixed opinions around how to vote. Some analysts say there's no difference whether we vote or not because we're in a perennial state of simulation. Others are urging for people to vote, even make the vote null but to go and make the democratic right valid. Many will vote for Cantinflas as an Independent candidate. Others will prevent people from voting altogether.

In the meantime, Mafalda asks: Pst! The country is there waiting, do I tell it to take a seat or what?

*PS

I will be documenting and participating in simulcra but somehow silently protesting. We're missing 43.