If you, like me, find all of these candidate diaries frustratingly impoverished in their vision of the possibilities of political change, you might want to check out Mike Ely's blog, Kasama,where he writes of Michael Moore's latest ruminations on the Democratic presidential field, that it

captures, like a snapshot, the misery and the logic of many progressive people. Believing that change can only come electorally, many are reduced to poring over the differences among the various establishment candidates, trying to find a reason to pick one over the other.

He continues,

Now firmly back among Democrats (as so many of Nader’s former supporters are), Moore confronts the core problem of this course: that the establishment of this party is fully and profoundly committed to empire and the system as it exists, while he and much of the Democratic political base is opposed to this Iraq war and genuinely motivated of many outrages and oppressions that fill people’s lives.

This schism within the Democratic Party is one of the hottest faultlines of U.S. society — and it is the one that needs to ignite in order for revolutionary change to have any chance. A partial rupture in that faultline over Vietnam (in 1968) brought the whole 1960s to its highest boiling point — as LBJ’s successor HHH proved incapable of bringing millions back into the system, and revolutionary sentiments burst into open contention within a whole generation.

Ely is recently departed from the Revolutionary Communist Party, where he edited their newspaper. He recently launched this site to promote his thoughtful critique of the RCP and its leader, Bob Avakian. His departure was apparently a liberating thing and his thoughtful writings remain revolutionary without being dogmatic. They have been a welcome reprieve for me from the narrow political horizons represented here by all the "look how great my candidate is" diaries and I think many here who share my frustartions will find them refreshing.