What will you do with your time/energy if we win BIG in November?

[CTyankee]

OK, let's start thinking about all the time we are currently spending on DU/watching MSNBC, CNN, PBS,YouTube, etc./talking and arguing politics or just thinking about it day and night.

We're gonna have LOTS of time on our hands. What will be YOUR creative use of your spare time?

Right now, I can only say "I don't know." And I think I'll be lost for a few weeks. But I do plan to resume my exercise program and probably read more novels that I've been putting off.

So what is it, DU?

[texastoast]

1. Work on issues and fund raising for the party

in the off year. 2010 will be here before you know it, and 2009 is the time to prep.

[mb7588a]

2. Pay attention in grad school. Golf. nt.

[Betsy Ross]

3. I hope the answer is get a good job.

Perhaps the economy will improve after the election enough to create a few more jobs.

[Teaser]

4. Devote myself more completely to my crystal meth addiction

it's a hell of a drug.

[crankychatter]

5. support public campaign financing... lobby DC and especially, state level NT

[Beetwasher]

6. We Weed Out The Democratic Chaff And Run Primary Challengers To Get Rid Of Intra-Party Scum

We improve the Dem party. After this election, our power will be undeniable and it will be time to hone the party.

[shraby]

7. Hold their feet to the fire and make sure things get done n/t

[Overseas]

8. Push for fully funded single payer national health care.

President Obama will need lots of us pushing for that in order to get it through all the Congresspeople who've received large donations from the industries that profit from our current dysfunctional system.

[loyalkydem]

9. laugh

at every republican pundit especially John Fiorae

[demosincebirth]

10. Watch regular TV

[AZBlue]

11. HOLD ON ONE SECOND!!

So you're going to get Obama elected and then just abandon him? Do you not realize the real work begins on November 5th? If you want to see any of these changes we're talking about, we'll have more to do after the election than before it.

THIS MY PET PEEVE ABOUT DU - TOO MANY MEMBERS WHO ARE ONLY TALK AND NO ACTION! Thankfully it seems most of the DU'ers responding to this OP get it.

[CTyankee]

15. Well! Mi scusi!

This would be so true if it weren't the case that I have been a hugely active Democrat for all of my adult years (I won't go through all my work with the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, League of Women Voters, Lamont campaign, every presidential election going back to JFK (YES, I am THAT old).

So I'm gonna have to spank you on this one. But only gently, AZ. I really get your point but surely I have a good point too. I spend way too much time on politics now and could do with clearing time for things I should not neglect. NO WAY will I "abandon" Obama, it's not in my character.

I'm not really mad at you, just a little bemused...:hi:

[AZBlue]

17. Then PLEASE forgive me for lumping you in with others!

:blush:

We should all learn from your activism and involvement!! And yes, we all do need to take a little time for ourselves.

I'm just getting nervous about the trend I'm seeing on DU and off - the feeling that all we need to do is elect Obama and *poof* everything will be better and we can all go back to ignoring politics. Sure, some are going to do that no matter what - but if too many of us do that, nothing will change. I'm just hoping that the enthusiasm and degree of participation that Obama has created will continue and I want to do anything I can to encourage it - and that includes pushing everyone I know to stay involved.

[CTyankee]

18. Oh, yes, this will be a watershed moment and people will be involved!

It's all good and you are right to take EVERYONE to task if they don'tkeep on point with everything on the political spectrum.

Bless you for staying so involved. Just don't preach to us older folks ( I know you didn't know who was posting!). Now you know that some of us have seen some pretty bad times (I remember Nixon defeating Humphrey and I was devastated). It was a really hard time being a liberal during the Nixon/Reagan/Bush era. But we soldiered on!

I think we are heading toward a GREAT movement toward change in this country, the likes of what we have not seen since FDR! I feel more than ready for the challenge.

[AZBlue]

20. You bring up an interesting point.

There's all this talk about the increased youth involvement in this election and what it means to them, but for someone who belongs to a different generation and who's seen heartache over time (Nixon/Reagan/Bush, racism and segregation, and JFK/RFK/MLK) this election has a special meaning of its own. (Being in my early 40's I'm somewhere in between the two groups and I guess my generation has its own reasons for being so passionate.)

I guess that's what so great about all this - it means something different to everyone, but everyone can find a meaning in it.

[CTyankee]

21. I went to segregated schools in TX growing up and racism is one reason I left

the South to live in New York after college. I'm now in New Haven CT and love being in such a blue area.

I can tell you that I have become so enraged over the past 8 years it has affected some family relations, which neverhappened before. I do not wish these family members ill but I cannot bring myself to be with them. Plus, I am watching all politics/all the time on TV and discussing it with my liberal family members almost daily.

Mercifully, I will be taking a break. On Thursday I will be leaving for a trip to northern Spain, returning on the day before Election Day. I voted absentee ballot a week ago. My brain will need to be rewired a bit as I am going into the Basque lands and across the Pyrenees mountains. It will be all about art and architecture and wine and food for me. I'll wind up in Barcelona. I'm sure to get the International Herald Tribune there and CNN, altho probably not in the Basque towns. Total immersion in another culture...and not a moment too soon!

[Mira]

12. I honest to God will take a big break from an 8 year pre-occupation

I will turn the country over to President Obama who has proven to be able to juggle a number of balls in the air and get good help and advice.

I will listen to Opera, I will paint pictures, I will read books, I will (if I can afford it) have people in for non-political events.

The transition will be sort of hard. TVs have to be smashed, a yard sale of political books needs to be held, websites need to be set to "ignore".
Yes, I can.

[wvbygod]

13. I'm going to buy a dirtbike with my lower taxes

Then go ride the public land trails and fight to keep them open.

[leftofcool]

14. Just what I always do/run, hike, camp, create art etc...

[roguevalley]

16. write, read, keep track of national things, work to get rid of palin

in the spare time. Mostly, just catch up on not feeling terrible all the time.

[Mz Pip]

19. Back to my photography

and digital printmaking. I haven't really totally stopped but my creativity has sort of been put on hold until this is decided. I'm really too nervous to be too creative.

[Symarip]

22. Honestly, I'd love to get a new job

I'm a defense contractor by default. This isn't my first choice of employment and I'm surrounded by fundies everywhere. I'd love to get in on the potential green energy jobs that might start flourishing.

[1corona4u]

23. I will...

go back to building my business, while I look for a real job. In the interim, I will finish my patio(cracked tile in 525 sq. ft.) and do some reno's....I can't wait until after the election...such a distraction, as is this board.