Do you surf this forum to relax from working on election reform?

[Amaryllis]

My idea of down time to take a break from working on election reform is hanging out here...do I need to get a life? What about the rest of you? Do you have a life apart from election reform? I have some life apart from this, but not a lot. Back to "How has your life changed since you learned about e-voting fraud?" My social life now is mostly the other people in my reform group; not socializing, but working on reform.

[LatePeriduct]

1. Hey its like they say....

If we don't do it, no one will.

Nobody would even have an official voice if Brad and the other blogs didn't create their own radio.

[Kolesar]

2. I spend most of my free time organizing an environmental group

After work, lawn work, bills, and that endless series of home improvement projects that someone dreams up for me.

[FogerRox]

3. I relax by driving a cab 45 hours a week

After I put in 30 to 40 hours
1)doing research
2)grassroots meetings
3)organizing educational forums
4) " town resolutions banning dre's

ETc.

[zimba]

4. Interesting concept

Coming here to relax. Ill have to try it.

[Melissa G]

5. I come here to cheer up and get educated, do research

and enjoy the funny, delightful hardworking activists at DU who are turning the tide in this country for election reform!
..After I work 50 plus hours a week at the stores, do church work, local politics and activism, tend to the husband, kids and yard etc...

[Amaryllis]

6. Me too....yesterday it just struck me funny that I put hours a week in on

reform, and then to relax I come hang out here.

[Melissa G]

7. Intelligent conversation and the Latest Greatest in Election Reform

Is there any place else to be in one's down time? After research,you can relax and have a beverage of choice with the KOEB or join the new Landshark fan club. I'll start a fan club for anyone doing great work...TIA, Berniew, Wilms, Bill Bored...:loveya: for all!

[MelissaB]

8. I come here for education, too,

and am amazed at the work being done here.

[Melissa G]

11. MelissaB is terrific for helping educate us nightly!

I really appreciate your quick updates place in our forum!
Floaty Hearts for MelissaB! :loveya::loveya::loveya:You do honor to our name!:patriot:

[MelissaB]

17. awww...

I've never had floaty hearts before. Thank you! :pals:

[Melissa G]

20. Sparky gave me my first DU floaty hearts and it felt so good

I decided to make it my mission to spread them all over DU's hardworking activists. You sure qualify! Feel free to help with the project! The more of us doing it the better!

[Peace Patriot]

9. I come to DU for both: to find activist projects to help with, and to

help create projects, and to relax and just look around, see what's happening all over, and to comment.

Like FogerRox, I use my day job to relax. (It's a lot simpler and easier than saving American democracy.)

As for social life, I think we all have need of a greater community than the people with whom we can directly connect. Some people depend on the news monopolies as a conduit to that larger national community--to their peril. We can no longer do that (if we did it before). We know how false it is, and how dangerous. So we connect here, with the part of our nation that we have the most in common with. It's almost like a new nation being born.

[Amaryllis]

10. Ditto on all you said. I just realized a couple days ago that if I want to

just relax, used to be I'd watch a DVD or read a book. Now I come hang out on DU. For a long time I viewed DU as part of my election reform work; still do, but realized it's also become what I do for down time and how different that is from what I used to do for down time.

[berniew1]

12. without documenting the problems and extent of problems, unlikely any

significant election reform will occur. Since those in power benefit from the way things are currently. The only way to get real reform is to convince the majority of the public that its important.

And I still think the most likely successful election reform will come through initiative, not by convincing those who benefit from status quo to change it.

http://www.flcv.com/2004plan.html

[MissWaverly]

13. I came here tonight after I wrote my senator about Bolton

I told her please do not vote for this man, the problem is there is so much to do, every day, on all fronts, I have never seen such a colossal screw up of this country in my entire life, sometimes I feel like this can't be real, it has to be something out of a Saturday Night Live skit. Last week, I wrote Dr. Dean about the big Dem investigation into voter fraud again. (like where's the investigation that we were promised by the Dems in Ohio) When I wrote Dr. Dean, I sent him my stats on Maryland, and I quote
the button I saw on DU. 1. Steal election, 2. Steal everything else.

[Amaryllis]

14. Know what you mean about not being real; keep thinking of science

fiction stories where they take over the whole world with computers.

[MissWaverly]

19. that's it, it's just like a play

but the curtain has to go up sometime, we will have to come around to reality, no matter how many lies are told, the truth will emerge.
That's the amazing thing about the 2004 election and 9-11, no one tells the same story, it's either A or B. You either did the vote tabulation at 10:00 pm or you left it to the next morning. The towers either pancaked or they didn't pancake to the ground after the
steel beams failed.

[Kip Humphrey]

15. Life apart from Election Reform? When we have won!

[mod mom]

16. I come here to be among like minded progressives, patriots and

to keep current. Relaxation is in my garden, which never got cleared out due to the election. I have young children, so relaxation doesn't come easy. Many days, I think about going back to my former life, but how could I live with myself? What would I tell my children when they are old enough to understand: I knew, but did nothing? I brought them into the world, I must attempt to make it a better place. I keep telling myself that history will be kind to us. It helps keep me going on dark days.

[FogerRox]

18. If I wasnt fighten back tooth and nail I'd go crazy............

I left NJ for FL for the month of OCt, to work for Kerry--it was invigorating, I felt powerful, I didnt feel

H E L P L E S S . . . . .

SO I continue the fight, I may not be working 100 hrs/week, only 70 or 80. But I can keep up that pace for decades, untill I'm dead.
And thats the only way short of a prison camp they can stop me. I aint lying down for these dogs, no way, no how, period. You can have my civil rights when you pry them from cold dead hands.

Live free or die

didnt Archie Bunker say that?