It’s like politics, only better

I am a part of Democrats Work.

I plant trees and then blog about it. That is my job. On a scale from one to happy that makes me damn near ecstatic. This is what politics looks like in five states across America:

Democrats Work supports a politics of service. It means getting up on sunny weekends and being a steward of a river. It means going out on a snowy evening and working at a food bank. It is about standing up and doing the job that needs to be done and discovering that people pitch in and help when they see others taking care of each other. It changes the world the instant you lay your hand to it, and the changes keep rippling out.

President Jimmy Carter was one of the early visionaries who helped promote Habitat for Humanity. It continues to be a world changing organization, and it has been a powerful catalyst for positive and peaceful social change.

There was something in that vision that has been missing from our modern political process, but two generations later, Jason Carter and his friend Thomas Bates are infusing the electoral process with a similar spirit.

Here is a YouTube link. That will take you to a tape I found of Jason speaking in Georgia.

And then here is a clip from the news this weekend that tells why the paint on my jeans today is making me feel very good about what I have been doing with my days.

I am a blogger at SquareState.net where I cover Colorado politics. When I have something a little more national to say, I put it up over at Kos. But I am hoping to use my diaries at Docudharma to ~blog the future~ by talking more about my projects with DemocratsWork and on the impact I see being made by this new (and ancient) approach to politics.