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...Loeb has been traveling around the country since mid-August promoting his book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Keeping Hope Alive in a Time of Fear, and trying to “broaden the stream” of involvement...
...Because people feel like they can’t do anything, they stop listening and they stop caring,” Loeb said. He referred specifically to the disappointing results of wide-spread protests of the war in Iraq. The outpouring of objections from voters seemed to fall on deaf ears in the Bush administration...
...then continue with political activism? Loeb responded by recounting the stories of successful activists in the past. “Our culture will say, nothing ever matters. We know that’s wrong, and we can point to example after example,” he said...
...Loeb reiterates the oft-expressed but nevertheless important point that too often people take the outcomes of history for granted and forget how they came about. “We know that women got the vote, but we don’t all know how…All we know is the conclusions, not the process,” he said. No one considers Susan B. Anthony a failure, he pointed out, even though she died 12 years before women got the vote...
Although he spoke directly of the hottest political topics, Loeb never raised his voice once, not even in response to hecklers from the audience during the open forum at the end. He really did seem to be, well, hopeful...