Reply #23: I kind of have [View All]

[sandnsea]

I've learned an enormous amount in the last few years, and most of it not what I expected to learn. So I actually have taken a step back, and am trying to learn to not expect so much from people in order that I'm not consistently shocked and disappointed. But I work online, so it's just easy to flip back and forth.

I had great hopes for Obama, but he hasn't really come up with anything particularly visionary. I'm not really an Al Gore fan, but I think he'd galvanize the party and that's what we really need most right now. He's certainly right on the issues, and I think he's done with the corporatist bullshit. I didn't think he'd run a few weeks ago; but lately, he just might. Although I'm also bracing myself for Hillary. So I'm back to thinking we still have to reach real live people before the issues will change. It's all rather a mess.