on: the right amount of activism

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You might think I feel terrible, putting all that time and effort and money into a campaign that lost. But I don't regret any of it. It puts me into a totally different headspace than after 2000. I know that it's not my fault, it's not the liberal grassroots' fault, it's Kerry's fault. I did everything I could have reasonably done; he screwed up by not reframing the terrorism/security/Iraq issue.

The key word here is reasonably. Sure, I could have done more. I could have avoided getting pregnant, not bought a house, moved to a swing state, quit the nice comfy job to do full-time activism, given my entire fortune to 527s and campaign funds, and bought some new clothes and gotten a haircut so I looked more mainstream when I went out canvassing. And Kerry would have still lost. Then I would be really pissed.

I do wish that I had moved to Florida and gotten involved in politics in 2000, when I was in a job I hated and I was too young to have panic attacks about my biological clock. *sigh*

But, having no regrets about this year's level of activism, I'm bouncing back. Slept last night; actually eating today; even went to work (although not yet productive).