Reply #7: Exactamundo

[Khephra]

Also Dean provides an actual outlet, a way for us angry Democrats to get involved in politics "hands on" again. This is something else that Kucinich is also doing (my second pick) too.

Every year the party has been bleeding members to the Right and to the Left (the Greens) because those two parties allow a lot more personal involvement. The Democrats have become stuffed with older members in leadership who refuse to step aside when their time is over. They've made it a chore to become involved. That's something the Dean/Kucinich supporters, the RW, and the Greens all understand. You have to keep the people involved or they'll split.

Like him or not, Dean is changing a lot of things for the better for the long term of the Democratic Party. We're going to make things better even if we don't win just by making people a part of the political process again.

Many of us became involved in politics for the first time after Selection 2000, and now look where some of us are now. A whole movement started that brought people into politics because of their contempt over the Selection.

The Dean Phenomena is the second wave of this tide change in liberal politics.