Electoral Advice

I don't vote: I never voted in the US and I never voted in Lebanon. Some people in Lebanon (and some of them are people I don't know--readers) have asked me for electoral advice. I explained that I don't belong to March 14 or March 8 and I would not give money (or smoothies) to either camp. If you are a secular person and if you are somebody who care about social justice, both camps fail. Hizbullah and Tayyar are not anti-capitalists and are not even opposed to Hariri's brand of savage capitalism (Tayyar's original program is very far to the right in terms of capitalist spectrum. Having said that, I would say the following: of the two camps, the agenda of March 14 poses the most threat and most harm to the interests of Lebanon and the Lebanese, and to the interests of the Palestinian question--the crux. But no one one camp can rule over the other: sectarian movements in Lebanon can't impose their will: only secular movements can. Twice in Lebanese history that (almost happened): the SSNP failed coup in 1961 and the Lebanese National Movement (the leftist coalition that was undermined by Yasser Arafat on whom the poet Khalil Hami must have addressed the poem: "Dig deeper, o grave digger") in 1976 when it almost took over Lebanon before the lousy Syrain regime intervened military to save the Lebanese Nazi militias under Bashir Gemayyel.