Reply #66: I think "tired" may be too mild a term. It's exhausting and given that

[EFerrari]

we are looking at stitching together and holding together a progressive coalition this year, it's no time to fritter away energy that way. My mom and I were talking about this last night -- how so many of us seem to feel like two year olds at ten o'clock at night -- really tired, mad as hell and not listening.

We're still not over the last two Federal elections, and have had three more years of packing that around. In that way, 2008 is going to be harder than 2004 because we seem not to be as resilient as we were three years ago, to be more brittle and so less able to extend ourselves to one another.

People are negative out of that survival instinct that attends to threat. It's in our interest to notice when things are dangerous in some way. But if we only attend to what is negative, the prolonged hyper vigilance can be damaging and even, habit forming. I really don't want to live as if the last seven years are the new normal or respond to people out of that exhaustion.