Reply #49: Thank you for saying this, however...

[Tigress DEM]

it may depend on where a person is at on a particular day.

I spend a lot of time trying to point out exactly the kinds of progress that are being made and how we need to recognize that and not let ourselves buy into the the fear the neocons want to pump into us, but I've had my hopeless days too.

So I like the group hug deal.

I also tell everyone I think can benefit from it about Paul Loeb's book "The Impossible Will Take A Little While" because it brought me back from the brink of political despair.

From Martin Luther King to Desmond Tutu to the Russian Revolution and Nazi resistance and Walter Wink it brings the stories of people who have been where we are at and leaders of the time and its message is that every little bit is important, that without every little bit it wouldn't happen. Got me up out of my shit real fast.