That is certainly the whine of someone who may feel morally superior to the rest of us who chose to vote for Gore. It embodies a politics that is totally bankrupt in the departments of pragmatism and patriotism. Of course not. The obvious answer is yes, of course, we want to win the government back. Government should not be viewed as a mere tool for corporate global capital.
Government is our only and best defense for the development of a counterforce to corporate capital.
And these are issues we must win, not just give lip service to. You cannot build the impulse for democracy if you maintain a fundamental disrespect for government and the polity that surrounds it. You cannot build the framework for social democracy if you disavow the means and apparatus to get there. Regrettably, the Left seems intent on continuing to move itself to the fringe of American politics, with a high sense of its political correctness, its moral superiority and smugness, and an obvious distaste to actually win power to change American society.