The Infamous Intro (aka what the xH&$*H!! is this about??)

This zine is a record of an event. The event of people making pancakes. The event of people talking politics. To be more specific:
We came, we met, we made pancakes.
We talked, we argued, we interrupted each other. We vowed to stop interrupting each other.
We appointed a timekeeper. He went out to play.
We appointed a facilitator. She abandoned her duties to draw.
We appointed a queue keeper. He tired of people ignoring him, and stopped keeping the queue.
Things... happened. Somehow, we still (mostly) liked each other at the end of the afternoon. Homemade jam helped.
Like our democracy itself, we are a flexible group. We cover for each other, and try not to make a fuss.
After all, there are more important things to make a fuss about -- no?
Like housing for the poor. Damming the few wild stretches of rivers we have left. Hospitals and health care. Time itself, and our measurement thereof.
Which is to say, we bear no easy answers for the choices that face you, friend. All we can do is advise you of our conversation in the hope it may smooth your journey through our electoral system. Some might say this zine is a straw man -- nay, yet it is full of straw polls.

Read on, brave voter.