How do you stay motivated in politics?

[More Than A Feeling]

It takes a lot of mental and (sometimes) physical energy to stay motivated in politics, every day it seems like there is some new outrage I have to care about. It's tough to keep up. But I was reading God's Harvard today (about Patrick Henry College and their Dobson Youth of fundamentalists) and I think that thinking about them and how they are training hard to destroy everything I believe in-seriously, they are like fundamentalist political Batman or something-will drive me to keep at it to counter them.

How about you? Do you go positive, and think about how much good you are doing? Or negative, by taking a political figure as your nemesis, and imagining them getting furious or something everytime you take action? How about religion? Or is your greatest cause something that effects you personally, and that is your motivation?

[PassingFair]

1. The truth is.....

I think about THIS guy:


"I'm TIRED of fundamentalist preachers telling me what to do!"

He works TIRELESSLY for progressives. He works tirelessly for ME.
I have a picture of him near my desk at home and on my fridge.
When I feel like the beltway has completely let me down, I look
at his honest face and remember that he NEVER QUITS.

[More Than A Feeling]

2. Good answer!

Did you work for his campaign?

[PassingFair]

3. Yes I did.

I would work for him again in a nano.....

I actually walked a precinct door to door for Kerry after
the primary, too.

Now I work on local races. The woman whose campaign I helped
on for County Commissioner last year is running for State Rep
this year.....

The line-up for national office leaves me a bit cold this time
around, so I'm sending money to Progressive Patriot's Fund,
individual progressives and a little to the DNC, to further
the 50 state strategy.

[applegrove]

4. I go positive. Life is a circle and the energy you send out comes back

to you. If you are lucky and patient. Plus I love learning and helping others out. Sometimes at the DU we can get down because of all the sorry news. Time then to go for a walk or something to rebalance our lives.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. I try to stay out of GD. Too many 'concern' trolls.

[PassingFair]

7. Opposite for me.

GD hones my arguments.
I don't BELIEVE the things that come
out of my mouth in real-life sometimes....
I swear, sometimes I CHANNEL GD arguments!

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. I start drinking when I wake up...

By noon I don't fucking care.

[mvd]

8. Look at how many days Bush has left

Counting the days down helps. So does DU, Mike Malloy, Keith Olbermann, political books and music, MoveOn..

We have to win in 2008. If we don't, even Guiliani would:

- veto bills like SCHIP
- keep the status quo going in Iraq
- fail to address global warming
- not restore civil rights
- appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court

About the only thing he might be better than Bush on are choice and guns. Things would be about the same. So it's motivating to think about the stakes.