In It for the Long Haul: Why Enthusiasm Doesn’t Always Matter

“I think we could learn a lot about how to build consistent civic engagement by looking at long-term relationships like my grandparents.” 

​We should equate campaigns to dating.
We all know how the first phase works in dating.
You begin dating, & you have so many things in common, you overlook what think to be
small differences. You make time for long dinners & longer conversation.
You see all the values you share & so many reasons why you’d be better together,
& then it happens. You choose to live your life together. 
Now you have to go to work and pay the bills & build a home together.
The relationship gets real & it gets hard.

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