Tantalizing Democratic Experiments
by Michael Lujan Bevacqua
Guam Sunday Post
November 6, 2016
Gof kinenne’ yu’ nu este na botasion, ko’lo’lo’ña i botasion gi
sanlagu. Hu såsangan este, achokka’ esta hu gof komprende na mas ki
taibali este na botasion nu hita guini giya Guahan, sa’ tåya’ botu-ta gi
botasion para i presidente.
I have been obsessively
following the election for President of the United States for more than a
year, and this is something that sometimes surprises people. The drama
of it is both repellent and compelling. I cannot turn away from this
event that seems to move both in frustrating slow motion, but also at a
frenetic Mad Max-like pace, careening at frightening speed toward a
possible dystopia.
As a local decolonization activist, or someone
who is actively advocating for a change in our political status, my
obsessing over the U.S. presidential election can seem contradictory. As
a distant American colony on the edge of the Western Pacific, we don’t
get …
