At the precinct level, ordinary citizens seemed to have achieved a remarkable degree of organization that was personally meaningful. And the county staff seems to have supported, joined and rode that focused energy into a county convention that accomplished its necessary tasks. But clearly the traditional form of pulling it together for the county was way outmoded for the kind of participation that has erupted this year. The state party rules for this kind of meeting are grounded in assumptions that relate to our current proto-democratic era dominated by citizen passivity and isolation.