When You Elect Stupid Congresspeople This is What You Get

[freshwest]

5. I know, it's turning oneself inside out trying to get through to them. I respect your work, and you

should know that even if you don't win now, you have still had the chance to network with decent people so your time and effort were well spent:

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.

If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

~ Howard Zinn

I was from the south, and despite a long-standing state of despair, there were some victories this year. Take good care of your heart and spirt, redstatebluegirl.