Apos
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I'm sort of bummed that I may miss all the action when HL2 et al hits the fan community. I'm going to try and stay unspoiled until I can come back and play it.
But right now, there's something more important. I've quit my regular job, come out hundreds of miles to a key battleground state, and joined the Kerry Campaign full time. I'll be here working 12 hour days 7 days a week for absolutely no money until Kerry takes back the White House from this gaggle of policy amatuers and petty princes. I realized that I can do a lot more than just my one vote: I can help build the sort of grassroots network that's going to turn thousands of previously disengaged and unmotivated people out to vote.
Having seen the campaign from the inside, having heard John Kerry speak, I can say much more confidently that the media and Bush campaign image of John Kerry is a fantasy. This guy is the real deal: someone who could be a real commander and chief: someone who's both a patriot and a truly moral leader with a true sense of the ideal that America is supposed to have been striving for, but has lately gotten sidetracked. I don't think there's been an election in decades quite as important as this one, and I couldn't just sit around and let a truly wrongheaded President stand in the way of one who could make America a respected leader again.
So, sadly, I'll not be around much. It'll be extremely hard to give it up, because I really enjoy living in this world of HL2 fandom, and it was all leading up to bursting with joy when the game came out and we could all share in the kickassitude together. But HL2-stuff is the fantasy world I like to escape into. This is the real world, in which people are really hurting, in which our foriegn policy is increasing disasterous and self-destructive, in which our policies and American ideals are going to the dogs. It has to come first. I hope when I have time to come back to HL2 fandom, it'll be to relax from long labors, not to escape into a fantasy world out of depression with what's happened to the real one.
That's all for now. The right man in the right place can make all the difference in the world.
But right now, there's something more important. I've quit my regular job, come out hundreds of miles to a key battleground state, and joined the Kerry Campaign full time. I'll be here working 12 hour days 7 days a week for absolutely no money until Kerry takes back the White House from this gaggle of policy amatuers and petty princes. I realized that I can do a lot more than just my one vote: I can help build the sort of grassroots network that's going to turn thousands of previously disengaged and unmotivated people out to vote.
Having seen the campaign from the inside, having heard John Kerry speak, I can say much more confidently that the media and Bush campaign image of John Kerry is a fantasy. This guy is the real deal: someone who could be a real commander and chief: someone who's both a patriot and a truly moral leader with a true sense of the ideal that America is supposed to have been striving for, but has lately gotten sidetracked. I don't think there's been an election in decades quite as important as this one, and I couldn't just sit around and let a truly wrongheaded President stand in the way of one who could make America a respected leader again.
So, sadly, I'll not be around much. It'll be extremely hard to give it up, because I really enjoy living in this world of HL2 fandom, and it was all leading up to bursting with joy when the game came out and we could all share in the kickassitude together. But HL2-stuff is the fantasy world I like to escape into. This is the real world, in which people are really hurting, in which our foriegn policy is increasing disasterous and self-destructive, in which our policies and American ideals are going to the dogs. It has to come first. I hope when I have time to come back to HL2 fandom, it'll be to relax from long labors, not to escape into a fantasy world out of depression with what's happened to the real one.
That's all for now. The right man in the right place can make all the difference in the world.
