Why did Al Gore flirt with the idea Democracy is non-existent under our current structure on CBS this morning?

Question

The democracy under the constitution comes this way. We are a Republic of Representative Government via election process by public voters! Yet the entire process is a sham/faked like a smoke & mirror show! You the public have no means to verify you votes like you might your bank account!

The Bush admistration using fear & scare tactics to influence a controled results for alternative purposes.

Answer 1

For the reality-based community, here are a few excerpts from the interview:

"I criticize both parties and the system as a whole," he told Smith. "I say in the book, very clearly, that it's too simple and too partisan to simply place the blame on President Bush, because we have a Congress and free speech and independent courts and checks and balances, a free press. We are all responsible for the decisions we make.

"And if this administration persuades the Congress to vote in favor of invading a country that didn't attack us, it is important for us to look at the reasons why that was acceptable to the Congress.

"At the time of that vote, more than two-thirds of the American people had been given the impression — and believed it — that Saddam Hussein was the man who attacked us on 9/11. That wasn't true. And the fact that that case was made is bad, but what's much worse is that the immune system of democracy, our natural defenses against such gross errors, failed to work, and we have to address these underlying problems. Because whether it's the invasion of Iraq or the climate crisis or other crisis, there's lots of evidence available ahead of time that should be used to show that we should make a different decision."

Gore speaks in the book of an electorate he sees as disengaged.

"I think," he told Smith, "that's related to the fact that the American people don't feel as if they have a way to make their voices heard, to make their votes count. And for all the work on campaign finance reform — and I've always supported it — I do think it sometimes misses the elephant in the middle of the room, which is, as long as politicians in both parties have to rely on huge sums of money to buy 30-second television commercials, which is the principle means of communication in our democracy between candidates and voters now, then they're going to go to the people who reliably have that money year in and year out, and the special interests (and the lobbyists who represent them) dominate that group."

Answer 2

If you read the Constitution - which I'm sure Al Gore has only skimmed - there is no Democracy in America.

This country was established as a Constitutional republic, the federal government is supposed to be limited with the states holding the true power, and those states governed by the representatives of the citizens.

With the illegal and fraudulent passage of the 17th Amendment, the proper establishment of the Senate representation was lost. Granted - putting the election of US Senators to a popular vote seemed like a way to have the people choose.

But reality is - the special interest gained the upperhand by dumping millions into the candidates they wanted to get their legislation passed. Those get elected are the ones with the most money to deceive the populace into voting for them.

Before the amendment - our state legislatures, represented by people we directly elected and knew personally from our communities, appointed our US Senators. These people would be accountable to us, the citizens and could be recalled from the Senate and replaced.

The whole liberal attempt to call this country a Democracy is there way of trying to push for bigger government and slide us along the path of socialism.

Answer 3

No, Al Gore did no longer invent the internet. there are various examples of world warming and there are various theory out predictions of what's going to ensue if we save being ignorant and ignoring it. The IPCC has various documents and predicitions for worldwide warming and carbon dioxide emissions. some issues that are happening and could ensue is the glaciers in the poles are melting. it is inflicting the sea point to upward thrust, which will displace many stuff. The glaciers melting in the sea is including freshwater to the saltwater and it truly is undesirable for some animals in the sea. the hollow in the ozone keeps getting larger owing to worldwide warming and which will reason extra extremely Violet rays to get to earth, inflicting extra dermis maximum cancers. The rays that make it to earth besides are oftentimes contemplated by skill of the ice decrease back into area, yet with that shrinking, the rays are being absorbed by skill of the sea, warming it. With the sea warmed, it willl be difficult for particular species to stay to tell the story. The checklist is going on and on. What impacts us is extra wildfires, hurricans, tornados and floods.

Answer 4

Who is this "we" you are speaking about? You are not an American.

The current two party system doesn't work because our elected officials from those two parties represent the party and not their constituents.

In the United States we have an anonymous system of voting. It works for us. But there is a system where we have proof that we voted and the total number of votes counted can be traced to the total number of votes cast.

Tell us how they do things in your country. We know how they work here.

Answer 5

The reason Al Gore flirted with the idea that Democracy is non-existent is because he's not running things. If he was in charge, in his mind, we would be more democratic than ever before in our history.

Answer 6

The US is not a democracy. The US is not a republic. The US is the oldest still running federation.

Answer 7

Of course Gore would challenge that, he still hasn't gotten over the loss to Bush in 2000.

Answer 8

how exactly do YOU plan to make the system of 300 million people be able to prove to each person individually that the vote was accurate.

Answer 9

and yet there are libs who see him as a great leader..hahahahha
just another reason to have testing in order to vote..

Answer 10

He's right.Politics are frauds.