And Neil, you are so narrow-minded it’s mind blowing.

You seem to misunderstand a few things. Perhaps I can be of some small assistance. Please note that it is not Mr. Gore’s Politics at issue; it is his ethics. To wit there are several apparently obvious errors which he declines to discuss in his recent effort entitled “An Inconvenient Truth”. It has been reported that the equivalent of an injunction has been judicially granted to those opposing plans to use “An Inconvenient Truth” in British schools’ science classes because of its innaccuracies. It is also reported that Mr. Gore has failed to acknowledge a challenge to debate these inaccuarcies. It is difficult to blame Mr. Gore for these failings however. After all he has made and continues to make scads of money off the effort.

The other significant issue you raise which ought to be addressed is that of American Democracy. Please note that America was not intended to be a democracy from the get-go. This country was meant to be a constitutional republic governed by law not by whoever has the biggest gang. It was not intended as a “powerful instrument to correct disadvantages, nor to look out for the majority. The intention was to protect the rights of all, even the minority, and to ensure that everyone even the minority enjoyed the right to the pursuit of happiness.

In the introduction to his magnificent The Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900, Jack Beatty notes a CBS News/New York Times poll, from 2004, in which 64 percent of the respondents answered in the affirmative to the first of these choices: “Would you say the government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves or that it is run for the benefit of all the people?”

Not very surprising, you say? Hardly even noteworthy? By itself, that would be true; even from an anecdotal approach one can quickly — and accurately — surmise that most Americans have little faith in their government’s virtuous independence.

But Beatty’s purpose wasn’t solely to point out that 21st-century America is off to a rocky start, confidencewise. His purpose was, rather, to note the remarkable acceleration of civic America’s discontent: when the same question was asked in the 1960s, only about half of the later number were willing to agree that “the government is pretty much run by a few big interests.”
Within the same 40-year period — and need I remind you that this was the era of Reaganism Rising, that prolonged epoch of propagandistic reassurances that a government much closer to the people was finally at hand — the number of Americans who agreed that “public officials don’t care about what people think” also nearly doubled, from 36 to 66 percent.

Moreover, two scholars of Congress, Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, were in the early 2000s offering academic evidence to confirm the popular opinion that when it comes to kowtowing to big business, the House of Representatives — the people’s house — “more closely resembles the House of the 19th century than that of the 20th, of the Gilded Age more than the Cold War era.”

What’s more, as though more was needed, in 2004 the American Political Science Association issued a report, “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality,” which bluntly concluded that “Our government is becoming less democratic, responsive mainly to the privileged and not a powerful instrument to correct disadvantages or to look out for the majority.”