Excellent work. This is what the Bulwark does the best: having thoughtful difficult (minority-position) conversations at the most crucial times. That is why I read, listen and subscribe. Keep doing it, please. We can all take a break if it becomes too much for us, the readers/listeners, but you should not stop, it’s the mission of your o…
Excellent work. This is what the Bulwark does the best: having thoughtful difficult (minority-position) conversations at the most crucial times. That is why I read, listen and subscribe. Keep doing it, please. We can all take a break if it becomes too much for us, the readers/listeners, but you should not stop, it’s the mission of your organization and you are doing a good job. As a note, my father was active in politics for about 20 years (not as a candidate, but as a party organizer). My mother was an party election observer for the first local election after a very long non-democratic hiatus. I was about 8 or 9 and I was given the job to deliver her lunch at the electoral college she was volunteering at. My family planned my outfit (casual but not too casual), my hair (braids pinned on top of my head, as I was going to a party of some sorts), and the time I was to show up with lunch (the exact time most families ate at home). They wanted to model how normal private people should engage in civic participation in the political process, since the previous attemp at free electoral representation in my grandparents time had spiraled in chaos and violence. I remember that when I arrived my mother was to busy to pay attention and told me to put her lunch on the table by her side and leave (I am not sure she ever ate it). She stayed until the preliminary results were certified by the election commission and didn’t make it home until the early hours of the next morning (too much for a mother of seven, that was her last political volunteering gig). When my dad finally stepped down from political organizing, I remember how disillusioned he was by the party types that would put their careers over the general good. Hearing that it is still the motivation by too many people in all political organizations doesn’t surprise me at all.
Excellent work. This is what the Bulwark does the best: having thoughtful difficult (minority-position) conversations at the most crucial times. That is why I read, listen and subscribe. Keep doing it, please. We can all take a break if it becomes too much for us, the readers/listeners, but you should not stop, it’s the mission of your organization and you are doing a good job. As a note, my father was active in politics for about 20 years (not as a candidate, but as a party organizer). My mother was an party election observer for the first local election after a very long non-democratic hiatus. I was about 8 or 9 and I was given the job to deliver her lunch at the electoral college she was volunteering at. My family planned my outfit (casual but not too casual), my hair (braids pinned on top of my head, as I was going to a party of some sorts), and the time I was to show up with lunch (the exact time most families ate at home). They wanted to model how normal private people should engage in civic participation in the political process, since the previous attemp at free electoral representation in my grandparents time had spiraled in chaos and violence. I remember that when I arrived my mother was to busy to pay attention and told me to put her lunch on the table by her side and leave (I am not sure she ever ate it). She stayed until the preliminary results were certified by the election commission and didn’t make it home until the early hours of the next morning (too much for a mother of seven, that was her last political volunteering gig). When my dad finally stepped down from political organizing, I remember how disillusioned he was by the party types that would put their careers over the general good. Hearing that it is still the motivation by too many people in all political organizations doesn’t surprise me at all.
thanks much
You’re doing the Lord’s work here, Tim (and krewe). Thank you for the sanity.