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The most passionate among those who fit the archetype we’ve described here are compelled by an ineffable combination of duty and desire to make their case to whoever will listen. One tracks the grim march toward defeat of presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey with the sadness that comes from witnessing the crushing power of inevitability over instinct. In 1968 Humphrey could not unite a Democratic Party or a nation bitterly divided by the war in Vietnam, and shaken by the urban bloodshed that followed the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Campaign stops were, as Theodore White observed, “a public humiliation” of shouts and jeers.” With funds drying up and the press writing him off, Humphrey vowed to plow on, noting that he would continue even if it meant refusing further money and campaigning with his wife from a rented station wagon.
Chapter 3: Saving the World One Person at a Time: the Inclination to Engage
