Holding power accountable gets exhausting after awhile, doesn't it?

I was at a recent event talking about the importance of voting and how important it is to encourage others to view voting more than annual chore but as a secular sacrament.

The room was filled with the most diehard activists --  the kind that stand on town greens in any kind of weather to protest the war in Iraq and the kind groups like Common Cause depend on to push for reform. They were energetic and eager to the hit the streets in the name of democracy.

Then, something happened.