Sometime in Feb I overloaded on bad news. Something awful is happening every day, and there is no strength in the halls of power or in the streets to stop it. Specific issues that bring the country together can be addressed, but external to that: it's over. The long mostly-sunny years of Obama and the optimism there are now only in myth.
I read the NY Times and the Washington Post's daily roundups, and I read the New Yorker.
My political involvement is $$ contributions.
My local senators and congresswomen are staunch progressives: they aren't on the fence. Maybe I can assist in the election campaigns of the neighboring officeholders (and I plan to), but other than that, I am profoundly ineffective in the direct exercises of power by the voter.
My thought is that influence networks need to be built and maintained that are solidly *liberal*, not silo'd into special interests. As a software engineer in Seattle, though...
... no one cares what I think. I am not a law student, a journalist, a writer, or a Titled member of nobility, er, the executive class. For all practical political purposes, I'm a working grunt. Ne'er mind any sort of knowledge locked up in my head. :)
And, of course, I have a job, wife, and child. Sometimes that's a totality of my energy right there, and building up big influence networks is not precisely a nerd strong point. So it's quite troublesome to me, how to be effective
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