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This is the blog of Ian Rosales Casocot. Filipino writer. Sometime academic. Former backpacker. Twink bait. Hamster lover.

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Monday, May 12, 2025

entry arrow10:33 PM | A Fragile Vote

I almost didn’t vote today. In the past, I would wake up at the crack of dawn to be an early bird at the polls. Today it took most of the morning to make me decide to go, and mostly because I had written an essay a few weeks ago about my disappointment that a significant percentage of the American electorate did not vote last November, especially those leaning liberal, which paved the way for Trump 2.0. I didn’t want to be a hypocrite. So I voted. I was in and out of my precinct in minutes, which was miraculous.

But later I observed that many people I know who were so passionate about getting the vote out in the last election were not voting either. Have we lost our faith in our democracy?



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Saturday, March 21, 2020

entry arrow1:40 AM | On Taking Down Mocha Uson Blog

I thought of it as social media “people power,” and granted it's not a black and white issue, and granted it can be viewed as a kind of undemocratic cyber bullying. [This is a nuance about democracy that a lot of strongmen actually manipulate. Also ironic: cyber bullying the person who has the patent on cyber bullying?] But I also thought back to some of my own questions about instances in history when fascism took root, and we asked, “Why didn't the people do something?” Well, as of Friday night, we did one thing at least. To quote Karl Popper: “In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.”

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