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Please read yesterday’s story by GoodNewsRoundup herself before you read this one. Every Saturday, she delivers amazing stories:
Be brave. Be engaged. Be the change we need to see: Saturday's Good News
900 words, 136 Recommendations, 350 comments. If you read the comments now, you’ll get to see them in all their glory. (It's never too late to Recommend, if you are a member of Daily Kos.)
Her introduction is much more nuanced than this excerpt:
I often look back on what I did in 2016 and regret not doing more — not knocking on more doors, not being more public in my enthusiasm, not donating more money. After all, the election was so close! If only we had all done just a little more!
I don’t want to make that mistake again. I can’t bear the thought of falling short on 11/3 and wondering — forever and always — what I could have done to help us win.
I hate conflict. But I am pushing past that and publishing 100 positive things about Biden — six days a week as we lead up to 11/3. I am already almost a third of the way through. I don’t want to make the mistake of not sharing my enthusiasm again.
There are many things I love about doing this series. The best part is the amazing people who have been posting in the comments. It is great to “see” them every day. The second best part is learning more about more about Biden and feeling MY enthusiasm for him grow with every day.
Up from the Comments: nancyjones responded to GoodNewsRoundup with this:
nancyjones (❤): It’s funny how we do, isn’t it? The compliments roll like water off a duck’s back, but oh do we hang on to the criticism and churn it over and over and over. Been there. Still go there. Even though I know better. Blech.
However, I definitely want you to know that I love your loving-Biden series, and I so appreciate you taking it on. Also, you give some of the best advice I’ve ever seen on Daily Kos, or anywhere else for that matter. I hope you take your own advice, dear sister. I can 100% assure you that you’re not working in vain and you’re making more of a difference than you’ll ever know. As always, glad to be fighting this fight with you!
As for myself, I rate my enthusiasm for Joe at about 3% to 5%. But my level of enthusiasm for Joe has absolutely nothing to do with my plan to work very hard to elect Joe. On the one hand, we have Democracy.
And Joe is going to have mammoth coattails, baby. By helping Joe, I'll be helping every Democrat in the country. As regularly-reading Gnusies may have noticed, I’m supporting GoodNewsRoundup’s Biden series too. I try to arrive in her diary every morning at 7 a.m. ET when she posts them, Sunday through Friday.
Let’s Joe!