Now that all this is over, there’s one more thing I want to add. Yesterday night, while I was waiting for my bus, I was able to witness something very.. touching. I decided to post this only after the votes are over, because maybe now there is a change people will not file this under “campaign spin” and move on.

The bus station was decorated with one of the FPÖ posters. The slogan was “Herr im eigenen Haus bleiben” (”Let’s continue being the owners of our home(country)”), and it was covered with nazi graffiti - everything from “foreigners out” to “kill the fucking turks” was present. While I was sitting and waiting, a man, somewhere in his late twenties and probably from the middle east, according to his looks, walked by, looked at the poster, stopped, and walked closer to read what had been written on it. After a few seconds, his face changed. I have never seen such a sad expression on someone ever in my life - not angered, not despaired, simply sad. It was so hard, actually, that I decided to just let it stand there, and not take a photo of it, as I usually would (Besides, the lighting conditions were less than perfect, and my camera has a hard time dealing with darkness and low artificial light at the same time).

That’s it. No moral of the story, no big fighting text. I just wanted to share this with you. And now, I’m off to work.