Vote Sizing Institute

GORE WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE and Bully Pulpit to Influence Presidential Race

NOTE: This is an OPPOSITION GUEST being made available as a counterpoint to traditional talk radio points of view. This guest’s views do not represent the views of Special Guests or its management.

Canadian Opposition Political Leader Steve Glickman says it’s a great sign that Al Gore, along with UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize and another great sign that he might use this to catapult himself into a bid for the presidency in 2008.

Glickman contends that even if Mr. Gore just uses this new honor to steer the debate among the current candidates, it’s about time that we turned the discussion away from all the reasons we need to continue to harm the planet and instead towards how we can start to heal it.

However, Steve Glickman, leader of the controversial “vote sizing” movement, seriously doubts that any of this will be enough to save us.

Said Glickman, “To most people on this planet - the poorer urban lower classes - global warming is not their primary concern when it comes to the environment. What they have to deal with is good old fashioned resource depletion and pollution like; trash in their alleyways and yards, polluted beaches, open sewers, noise, ugliness, and contaminated food and drinking water.”

“Comparing these problems to global warming, Glickman added, “is like comparing maternal death, infant mortality, malaria, food poisoning, malnutrition and getting hit by a car; to cancer - it’s not really their fight. Even in America, voters see global warming as something that the elites care about only because it’s something that actually affects them. If people are going to vote for responsible leaders, and we are going to organize ourselves to fix global warming, we’ll need to put it in context as part of an even much larger problem. Disrespecting our environment is the same as disrespecting each other.”

Steve Glickman, founder of the Democratic Empowerment Party of Canada, proposes sizing votes inversely to income, so that the poorer, working and middle class people - those most negatively affected by pollution, corruption, and gridlock - can speak up, be heard and change the real world that we live in. It’s not good enough to keep our eye on the elitist’s ball if that means ignoring the issues that most people face day after day. Says Glickman: “Vote sizing is a way to tap in to the wisdom off all those people walking the planet who’ve learnt how to get by on less, and not look towards more expensive cars or molecules to save us. We need to save ourselves - that’s what democracy and democratic reforms like vote sizing are all about... not just following the wealthy people wherever they choose to lead us, towards needing more.”