If Gore is elected, it will signify that a majority of Americans have grown accustomed to the stench, even attracted to it. It should not come as a surprise. The human being is magnificently adaptable and able to tolerate, even love, that which was previously considered vile and sinful. Perhaps our sorry experience with the Gore-Clinton administration was needed for us to understand how close we are to the brink of becoming a nation of men, not laws. In such a nation, justice is neither sure nor even-handed.
Corruption becomes a way of life, institutionalized in the government.
The idealism of the young erodes into cynicism. Proud men and women who would never be a slave to another person are conditioned to willingly put their heads in the yoke and become a slave to Big Government. But the future is not predestined. We may have stepped in it, but that does not mean we have to track it into the future. Yes, please yes, history may record that the legacy of the Clinton presidency was that its classic wretchedness awakened the American people from a soul-numbing moral stupor.