Dean Haters = Populism Haters = Status Quo Lovers

[stickdog]

Howard Dean's organic, inclusive, responsive, continually expanding and ultimately empowering grassroots campaign is THE POLITICAL STORY OF 2003.


How can I possibly make this clear to people who simply don't want to comprehend?

Dean says: "We can't fail in Iraq. We need to commit more troops."

Over the next day or two, Dean's supporters make themselves heard via the campaign's blog, email, phone banks, meet ups, message boards, etc.

In response to his supporters' overwhelming feedback, Dean refines his message within days: "We need more troops in Iraq: but UN troops, not American troops."

This is the ultimate EMPOWERMENT OF THE CONCERNED AND INFORMED CITIZENRY over media punditry, corporacracy and the tyranny of the elite neo-politi-cons (of both major parties). Democrats can't compete with Bush's 200+ million by raising the money from rich contributors and corporations. But if 10 million concerned, EMPOWERED citizens contribute $20 each ...

Can't y'all just, for a second, step back from the personalities and policies and punditries and get a grip on the populist power we now have the potential to unleash if only we just stop doing everything we can to help the establishment suppress it?

Dean isn't the be all and end all. But by simply yet ingeniously harnessing the pent up demand for SOMEBODY to shout out that Emperor Bush is not only stark naked but also lacking all control over his bodily excretions, Dean's insurgent campaign has almost single-handedly invented the most important new paradigm for returning political power to the "informed and concerned masses" that has ever been anywhere near this effective on anywhere near this scale.

I'm calling it "Informed Populism" for the lack of a better term. Dean's campaign is the only one in history that has ever had it. And there just ain't no denying that America sorely needs it.