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Listen.

Maybe you didn’t vote for Gore. Or Kerry. That’s cool. But check this out and see if you can stay comfortable with the way our country is being run.

This isn’t simple, and policital awareness and participation isn’t easy. Gore’s speech from yesterday is an hour long, one of dozens and dozens of important speeches that make up our country’s history. But you have to hear it, or read it, then decide what it means to you. Otherwise, the folks who are paying attention will keep on running the country without you. And believe me when I tell you they’re botching it.

Read it.

Or hear it.

Then act. Do something! Even this only means supporting Bush and working to discredit Gore (then again, the best the White House could do to refute this speech was to lash out as always and predictably declare that “his hypocrisy knows no bounds”). Or if this alarms you, write your senator. Or join the ACLU. Or MoveOn. Or run for office.

Do something! Start by taking an hour–a whole hour–to listen to this speech. Really listen to it. And tell me what you think.