E Pluribus Unum

Well said, shep. Sad but true.

I would love to see Gore run because having him as President would be a sort of cosmic rewind function. I would love to be able to get out of the shower like Bobby Ewing and consider the last eight years just a bad dream.

Steven Weber nails it:

Are we destined to have the presidency so finally and utterly mediocritized that it no longer holds any attraction for the most qualified person in recent memory who would imbue it with the honor and prestige it -- and we -- deserve?

Read the whole thing.

Thanks Adam.

And thank you, Ara. That was beautiful (in an ugly, frightening sort of way).

I agree that Weber points to it. Gore knows that the game is already probably lost and that the oligarchs are cashing in their chips (“the scramble of organisms over the carcass's wan…bacteria digesting the sad corpse's putrefying innards”) and building their island fortresses before Soylent Green is no longer just a B sci-fci thriller.

In any event, the entire media/political culture is corrupted by them beyond salvation by even the POTUS and the only salvation possible, awakening the beast to rise against it, cannot be accomplished from within the same system that gives equal standing between liberalism and conservative ideology.