This site is built on a love of progressive politics. We are called upon by Kos to elect more and better Democrats, and we all agree with that simple aim, but what we really love, though, are the political campaigns themselves. Most of us work in them, volunteer for them, and we follow them as though our very lives depended upon them. We care. A lot.
Political campaigns are like cocoons. Especially when we are young, we wrap ourselves in them as though they are more important than life itself. We do this because we have strong principles and beliefs. We also do this because it feels really, really good to matter, and we in our cocoons are absolutely sure that we matter a lot.
Many of us become utterly consumed by campaigns. They feel good in the same way drugs can feel good - but, only at first. If we use campaigns to define ourselves, we run a real risk of becoming actual junkies with no lives outside of politics. We forget what real life actually is. We build and inhabit cocoons like addicts do.