A question for my activist friends...

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and my friends on the left generally...

How do you avoid despair? How do you not get consumed by the rage?

I find myself sinking into sort of a cynical apathy, that looks at each new outrage and says, "So what else is new?" It's not that I don't care, just that I feel beaten down.

I know that for evil to triumph it only takes good people to do nothing, but how do you keep from that?

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Try to do the occasional useful thing to rail against the system; give money to people who are doing it if I can; otherwise general support.

Remember that its a different lifestyle in Europe (and probably other countries). Wish I could be there.