Reply #18: That is the jist of it! [View All]

Howard Dean represents anti-establishment insurrection from the ground up. His popularity is not about left or right issues (as the media and his opponents keep claiming) but rides upon the swelling anger people feel toward Bush and the Dems' own complacent, top-down, risk-averse, corporate-compromised leadership.

The people are awakening and they are angry at the mess they are finding. Some of us have been getting angry for a very long time. None of the Dem leaders in Congress (aside from the often overlooked DK)that I recall speaking loudly, along the lines that I was thinking, is running for President.

Dean gave voice to a lot of angry and seemingly voiceless folks.

He has got executive experience as a former Governor and is not as left as Kucinich. I think too that him being a physician gives him credibility on the healthcare front, a growing problem that has been unsolvable thus far.

All the others running are basically considered establishment and thus associated with the frustrating complacency that has resulted in the mess we find ourselves in now.

Just my $.0125

Julie