Reply #23: You don't have to be standing in the middle of the swamp to drain it [View All]

What he is doing now is some of the best things to actually bring about a cleansing of our system. He is championing ideas. And by staying removed from the political games he can do so without charges of trying to play games. He can speak his mind untarnished by political positioning or appealing to special interest groups. He can place ideas before the people to truly consider rather than having his words rejected because they are part of a stump speech.

Religion and politics have a great deal in common. One of the things is how people put up defenses to ideas if they come from the political/religious opposition. If an atheist approached a fundamentalist and tried to explain evolution (I know this from experience) they will throw up a shield of rejection. Nothing you say can get through to them. But if the ideas enter in via a different path they can reach the person. This is the same for politics.

Gore is doing what he can to change the way people see things. He is doing things he cannot do while running or sitting in office. Politics carries with it an extra burden. It changes the way people consider what you are saying. And what Gore has to say is more important than where he is sitting when he says it.