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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I keep an eye out for good news to counterbalance the bad, and I try to look for the positive parts of even the bad things. I look at the good things that I've accomplished in my area, and I try to keep up hope for all my fellow citizens.

Don't obsess over the negative headlines that you see every day; it'll just drag you into that suck of cynicism and apathy. Don't let rage drive you; instead, be moved by love and by concern. Set "perserverance" as a goal, and live so as to set an example that your way works, too.