Al Gore: "it's all about power"

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54. We are where we are because of 40 years of capitulation

And that includes the 2000 election.

I have no use for anything Gore has to say until he begins with this:

"25 years ago, we had a hotly contested election which history has shown I would have won had all the votes been counted in Florida. I made the decision at the time to put my faith in the honor of our nation and the strength of our Constitutional government. In hindsight I can see this became a pivotal moment that has put our country on the path of fascism. With the benefit of hindsight I can see that my faith in these institutions was misplaced, and ironically, by trying to do the statesmanlike thing, in fact, my decisions had the opposite effect. Today, I apologize for my part in enabling this path to fascism and I pray that somehow we can reverse course before we lose our democracy completely."

He really should own his role here. Certainly Gore is not the only one who was far too timid , but is is just not OK for him to show up 25 years later and say, "Golly, who woulda thunk it?" MILLIONS of us thunk it at the time. We thunk it when Kerry wouldn't fight the Swift Boaters. We thunk it when Obama wouldn't even consider a public option. We thunk it when Obama wouldn't fight for his rightful SCOTUS nomination. We thunk it when RBG selfishly clung to her seat, handing it to Trump. We thunk it so many times in those 25 years of Gore silence.

I don't blame everything on Gore, but he should at least acknowledge his part in getting us to this point. He should at least admit he was wrong and he should tell his fellow Democrats to stop making the same mistakes.