Work Worth Doing: A Tribute to Leslie Knope.
Originally published to The Curious Ally Cat in 2015. Reposting because it is Media Monday! A lot of this post is horrifyingly dated, but it’s okay. It’s a shot of optimism about politics (LOLOLOL)
The same reason I love politics is the same reason I will never go into politics - the concept of fighting the system, of trying to make the country better, when so many people want things to either remain the same (broken) or destroy it further. I feel like politics are for either the most lion-hearted of optimists or the coldest of wonks. I just bingewatched the first season of House of Cards and I compared it to cotton candy - deliciously empty.
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