{"id":775,"date":"2005-04-25T15:06:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:07","slug":"i_wonder_if_har","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder If Harry Bridges Worried About Having A Support Group?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, there’s not a lot of distance between satire and reality. For example, is this Iowahawk<\/a> or the L.A.Times<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Eva KATAJA remembers the day more than two decades ago when she told a friend of her desire to become more active in liberal causes \u2014 to “take responsibility” and help make the world a better place.<\/p>\n

\nThe friend, a longtime activist, leveled with her. Don’t do it, he advised. You’ll lose friends. You’ll become isolated. People will see you as a downer. You’ll regret it.<\/p>\n

\nKataja was taken aback but vowed that she would never become burned out and embittered.<\/p>\n

\nFast-forward two decades through countless meetings, protests, projects, petitions, phone banks, wars, elections and Sept. 11.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now Kataja, a marriage and family therapist in West Los Angeles, says: “As the years have gone by and I’ve gotten in deeper, I’m beginning to experience what my friend talked about. I feel discounted and marginalized a lot of the time.”<\/p>\n

\nChampioning a particular cause or course of action often can be a lonely crusade, but these are particularly tough times for liberal activists.<\/p>\n

\nRed-state dominance in the last election, the war in Iraq, changes in environmental policy and the possibility of a more conservative Supreme Court have left many local activists feeling as blue as the state they live in.<\/p>\n

\nWhat they need, one longtime activist recently decided, is some therapy \u2014 a good old-fashioned support group tailored for the liberal activist in need of emotional rejuvenation.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sigh. Now I’m feeling a little depressed.<\/p>\n

My grandfather was a bodyguard for Harry Bridges<\/a>. I think he had other things to worry about than self-esteem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, there’s not a lot of distance between satire and reality. For example, is this Iowahawk or the L.A.Times? Eva KATAJA remembers the day more than two decades ago when she told a friend of her desire to become more active in liberal causes \u2014 to “take responsibility” and help make the world a better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}