A letter to Mr. Gore

[Nordmadr]

Dear Mr. Gore, or as I prefer to think of you, Mr. President:

My heart is joined to this earth and this nation. It is ruptured and bleeding. The world has lost its way. We need leaders of conscience. We need leaders strong in their convictions. We need leaders for truth who will fight for what is right. America is losing that which makes me proud to be an American. Perhaps I am naive and we never were that nation. If that is the case, perhaps it is finally time for us to actually be the world leader we claim to be.

I feel we are on a precipice and teetering dangerously. The natural environment cries out to us and yet we charge on in our quest for perpetual growth. Why can so many not recognize that we need a new direction? It is an insanity we are either unable or unwilling to come to terms with.

Every year the people of this earth require more energy. We are the greatest user and abuser of this energy. We sacrifice life for it. How can we be the culture of life Bush preaches of when all around us is death? Death of our atmospheric protections, death of the species of the planet (including us) and death of hope.

What will we do when there is not enough oil? What will we do when there are not enough trees? What will we do when there is not enough food?

We have greatly overshot the ability of the planet to support us. Plain and simply, there are too many of us wanting too much. We must find a way to take less from our environment. In my heart that means we need to find a way to reduce human population on this planet peacefully. We need truly renewable energy sources to be brought into play before it is too late. If we do not we will see a continuation and escalation of the resource wars currently taking shape in the world.

We need to transform America from the nation of strip malls to the nation of strong local communities. Communities that can actually do things for themselves. We need to educate America away from consumerism. We have to learn to make things again. We need craftsmen and farmers. We need to be guided by ecological principles, not economics.


Mr. Gore, you have been strong in your advocacy the last few years, and I hope you continue to be so. Now is the time for action. We need leaders of conscience. We need leaders strong in their convictions. We need leaders for truth who will fight for what is right.

Mr. President...we need you.

[Q]

1. Nice thoughts...

...but the PARTY leadership doesn't want Gore. They and Gore are traveling in different directions. Gore is a social Democrat and the party leadership are corporate Democrats. That's why they exiled him. Never the twain shall meet.

[Nordmadr]

2. Yeah, but a funny thing happened...

the grassroots members of the party are staging a coup. Just look at Dean.

Olaf

[mattclearing]

3. Yeah, they'll do it for Dean, but Gore?

I'm sorry. I like Gore. But I think a lot of his wounds are self-inflicted. He should have been President.

My main issue with him is that he went along with campaign strategists' suggestion that they pick the four counties in Florida to recount that benefit him the most over asking for a full statewide recount.

To ask for a full, statewide recount and pledge to abide by the results would be the fair, and inarguably right thing to do.

The irony that said full statewide recount would have won the election for Gore hasn't lost me.

That seems like a serious judgement lapse to me, and also a moral lapse.