Gore Finds Clarity I Can Agree With!!

"We need to have an American spring--you know, the Arab spring," Gore said. "The nonviolent part of it isn't finished yet, but we need to have an American spring, a kind of an American nonviolent change where people on the grass roots get involved again."

Gore made a direct appeal to somebody named Keith: "I want to tell you, Keith, this country is in trouble. Our democracy has been withering on the vine. It really has been. This has been going on for some time. But this is not an event that can be taken lightly. I know it's difficult to imagine that people who care about the values that this country was based on will rise up and get much more involved in the democratic process. But that is exactly what we need, and that is the only thing that can get our country back on the right track."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576488242529610856.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond

No one needs me to tell them what a buffoon this man has become, and perhaps always was, so I began to feel a bit worried when I realized I agreed with him and admired his courage in complementing those grass root activists known as the "Tea Party" who speak their minds on politics, and support liberty and the principles this country was founded on - these are people, and thus imperfect, but frankly, the best I can hope for is a large group of imperfect humans who are not demanding to use the power of the government against me.  In contrast to all of the imperfect groups of humans who demand that the government's monopoly on the use of coercive force be used to make me behave as they see fit, the Tea Party is darned refreshing and even exciting.

 

What a disappointment then when, after reading further, I realized Algore didn't include the Tea Partiers when he discussed his desire for grass roots democratic activism:

"Not the, you know, not in the Tea Party-style," Gore clarified. To explain his objection to the Tea Party, he recited a list of left-liberal-progressive demon figures: "right-wing billionaires, the Koch Brothers . . . Fox News . . . the wealthiest Americans . . . powerful corporations and special interests . . . and the Supreme Court."

Oh well, it was too much to hope for that Gore would actually mean what he said about anything, but especially about his fondness for grass roots democratic activism supporting the principles this country was founded on.