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 forgot to mention that much of my actual activism is subversive... getting alerts from groups I oppose, and then supporting the causes and people they attack. That makes me feel I am actually doing something.

When the supported person comes out swinging, I get rewarded.

TK