Al Gore, An Ignored Genius

    Al Gore is probably the wisest and most intelligent man that ever ran for president of the United States, with the possible exception of Thomas Jefferson.

    He just wrote a brilliant book full of very wise and intelligent insights into the state of America and the World.  The fact that his book has been ignored is a commentary on the abysmal state of ignorance in America today.

    The name of his new book is THE ASSAULT ON REASON. Some day, historians will look upon his book as the last intelligent attempt to save a dying ideology, the ideology of the United States of America and its Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

    This book, and another book published by another author on Europe, document the death throes of Western capitalist democracy, as we have known it.

    To almost all Americans, who know virtually nothing about history, science, politics, economics, or anything else, Al Gore is a washed-up candidate for president and nothing more. He once wrote a brilliant book called Earth In Balance which documented the environmental crisis caused by Global Warming and overpopulation.

    When he ran for president, he had to dumb-down his campaign to a pathetic degree, and abandoned his vital message about the coming environmental catastrophe.

    Although nearly everyone dismisses the new book without reading it, and assumes it is just warmed-over liberalism, his book is actually much more.  He correctly points out that many conservative principles have been raped by President George Bush. Bush has violated the Constitutional authority of Congress to declare war and fund wars.  He has violated the independence of the judiciary by refusing to follow laws passed by Congress.  The Media has hardly reported this alarming fact at all.

    Singing the swansong of Western capitalist democracy, Gore still has hope that the Internet will somehow cause Americans to become intelligent participants in a real democracy that will make America and the World a better place.  It won't happen.

   He documents once again the horrible dangers of Global Warming and the evil policies of the Bush Administration.  He documents how evil industries such as the oil industry and the drug industry have taken over the American Government and implemented policies that are bad for everyone.  He documents how Bush lied us into the War on Iraq and how Bush has failed massively to protect us from terrorism and the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

   Gore documents the incredible ignorance of the American voter, who knows virtually nothing about important issues.  Most Americans can't name even one Supreme Court Justice, nor their Congressman.  Almost no one knows how their representatives stand on any of the issues.  96% of Congressmen are re-elected.

The key to getting re-elected is 30-second television commercials.  Candidates sell their integrity to special interest groups to pay for these vital commercials.

   Gore's book is full of some very surprising intelligence and knowledge.  He discusses the latest research on the brain, on hypnosis, and the psychology of persusasion.

    He shows an amazing knowledge of the history of the Constitution.  He praises conservative Supreme Court justices like Justice Jackson, who tried to limit the power of Government to abuse the people.  Of course, Americans are too illiterate to even know about Gore's book, let alone read it or act on it.  Instead, the Media is discussing whether Hillary is showing too much breast cleavage to be president.

    Gore criticizes Julius Caesar for overthrowing the democracy of the Roman Republic.  But Julius Caesar was the only man who stood up for the common people and made life better for them and restored law and order and efficiency to goverment and society.

    Clearly, if we had the intelligent citizenry that Thomas Jefferson envisaged, Gore's new book would help save our democracy.  But we don't have that.  Historically, we are at the same stage that Rome was in the last days of the Republic, before the beginning of the Roman Empire.  As Gore points out, our democracy is already a shallow shell, and the president has been taking on dictatorial powers.  The only problem is that George Bush is a man of mediocre intelligence, no compassion, no imagination, and little ambition or energy.  If our country and our world will be saved, it will take a very new and very different type of leadership.  Bill Clinton was fond of reading the writings of the philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

    In my opinion, none of the candidates for president will be of much use in saving America or the World. Perhaps at some future time there will be hope.