Tristero for Digby: "We Can Do Better"

Like most Americans, Strindberg-style morbidity and pessimism quickly becomes tiresome around Casa Tristero. For all I know, Swedes get sick of Strindberg, too, but one of the most striking features of our national consciousness, that folks from other places never cease to comment on, is Americans' sense of optimism with purpose. Often, it is true, this is carried to a dangerous fault. But it's a country-wide tic we have and it can't easily be denied. So, being an American, I can't write a post like The Third Way And The Highway without reflexively thinking, "Lighten up, man! Your audience is dying out there." So I won't draw attention in this post to the untidy fact that the Pakistani death toll has reached 42,000 or that there's a serious food crisis in the Guatemalan villages ravaged by the mudslides or even that dozens of people were killed today in a suicide car bomb in Iraq. Nope. Below, I'll accentuate the positive. Enjoy!

Here is an article that provides a rough outline of Dean's plans for the Democrats.