Jim Moore officially gets it:

Perhaps Howard Dean is not running for the same presidency as George Bush.  That is, perhaps in an era of online communication, combined with grassroots community organizing, we need a new form of presidency that itself encourages more peer-to-peer problem solving across our society.  Perhaps we need a movement to reverse the consolidation of presidential and legislative and judicial power at the center, because this consolidation of power makes it harder for the society to solve its most critical problems.

This is exactly what the Participant Movement -- which Dean epitomizes from a political standpoint -- is all about. It's about the redistribution and decentralization of power. First we do it here, then we do it for the world. It's utopia or oblivion, folks. Same as it ever was. Thanks to Jay McCarthy for the pointer.