Truthdig - Reports - The Conquest by Presidentialism

I wish I'd written this:

Truthdig - Reports - The Conquest by Presidentialism

Here's my favorite bit of it:

...First and foremost, by ignoring local elections and issue-based organizing in favor of presidential politics, activists make presidential progress less likely. “Even the best presidents need social movements to accomplish transformational change,” warns community activist Deepak Bhargava in The Nation magazine’s latest White House-centric edition. “FDR could not have succeeded without the agitation of the unemployed workers’ councils and the unions, and LBJ’s greatest accomplishments were made possible by the civil rights movement.”