That sense of hopelessness you describe is why I have been almost completely ignoring politics for...well...years.
I did a lot of Lost Cause Work in the late 70s and early 80s. For a whole year I believed that we could stop Big Steel from leaving Western PA. I fucking believed it. And then it left. Before that I believed the ERA would pass.
In '92 I had another episode of Hope and that's why I absolutely couldn't stomach the attacks on Hilary from the liberals. I expect it from the conservatives, but not from who I thought was Us.
Now? The above comments about the internet are so dead on. I think back to the labor group I worked with. What would we have given for a way to reach people around the world, to get our version of events out every time there was a march, a picket line. Holy crap. What could we have had?
So I shorten my Default View almost daily, and I dig into my own life and try to do right by my family and my authors and become obsessed with sports.
Would the right leader/candidate be able to mobilize people like me? Maybe. Tip O'Neill said all politics are local. Maybe that's what it's going to take. If We (and by We I mean, the disaffected like me) decide to clean up around ourselves maybe that'll start something.
I know I'm somewhere between tired of all of it and tired of being tired of it. If that makes any sense. It's late. You don't talk about this stuff often but when you do, you're good.
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I did a lot of Lost Cause Work in the late 70s and early 80s. For a whole year I believed that we could stop Big Steel from leaving Western PA. I fucking believed it. And then it left. Before that I believed the ERA would pass.
In '92 I had another episode of Hope and that's why I absolutely couldn't stomach the attacks on Hilary from the liberals. I expect it from the conservatives, but not from who I thought was Us.
Now? The above comments about the internet are so dead on. I think back to the labor group I worked with. What would we have given for a way to reach people around the world, to get our version of events out every time there was a march, a picket line. Holy crap. What could we have had?
So I shorten my Default View almost daily, and I dig into my own life and try to do right by my family and my authors and become obsessed with sports.
Would the right leader/candidate be able to mobilize people like me? Maybe. Tip O'Neill said all politics are local. Maybe that's what it's going to take. If We (and by We I mean, the disaffected like me) decide to clean up around ourselves maybe that'll start something.
I know I'm somewhere between tired of all of it and tired of being tired of it. If that makes any sense. It's late. You don't talk about this stuff often but when you do, you're good.