Main Street

Carrying hope to the doors

by Thom Mol—Pennsylvania

Sometimes it’s easy to fall into the statistics we hear everyday about disappearing jobs, the declining value of the dollar and the spider web cracks showing up in our debt-ridden society. We hear and study these things everyday….have concrete examples given at some households we visit, see them in the eyes of the people who we encounter. It can be easy to see the world through this prism, that we are staring and possibly have already started to slip into the abyss as a country. But if we carry this to the door, we lose the enthusiasm of the people we are talking to and they won’t join.

Sometimes we must remind ourselves that we represent the hope for the people we meet. If we do not believe, deep in our hearts, that our country is better than this, then we cannot make the skeptics believe…and that is our true mission. We have the true believers on our side already. We need to sway those that are starting to feel the dichotomy between how “wonderful” the economy had been and what they have been feeling and seeing for the past twelve or more years. For them, it is our belief in the power of people over money and our being able to infect them with the same mindset that gets change accomplished…something us canvassers must never forget.

Tags: membership, taking action, the economy