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[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You did the right thing, and if the Supreme Court was less corrupt, or if a thousand more young Floridian had voted for Gore, he could have possibly won. In a statewide recount that tried to consistently resolve every ballot dispute, Gore just barely won. He won the popular vote, and would have helped us greatly on the issue of climate change and the environment. He would have done some of the shit things Bush did after 9/11, but probably wouldn't have been gung-ho about Iraq. If he unified the country similar to Bush, he might have boosted his party's popularity and gotten better legislation passed.

Bush appointed two conservative justices, did all the shit things Republicans always do. If a Republican won in 2008 following the financial crisis, a Republican might have been blamed for a terrible recovery instead of Obama, and Bernie might have had a better chance at getting elected. Trump might never have gotten such a popularity boost from racists reacting to a Black president. Things could have drastically changed if Florida flipped blue.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Gore lost because Janet Reno decided to hand that kid over to Cuba and did it the Janet Reno way which is to send full SWAT into a situation that doesn't come even close to calling for it. The same Janet Reno who launched her career on the Satanic daycare worker panic that resulted in suicides and homosexuals being falsely arrested. This is a woman who claimed to believe that daycares were having satanic orgies.

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