Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. ↗
The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy. ↗
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. ↗