I hate these headlines.
BECAUSE IT FUCKING BLATANTLY IS!
You go Al Gore, still wonder how different things would be if you won
Probably not that different, honestly. The seeds of today’s fascist outbreak were already firmly planted by then. It was such a close election in 2000, it’s quite likely he’d have lost to a charismatic opponent in 2004 over discontent with Democrats or green policy. (An echo of either George Bush’s loss in 1992, or Jimmy Carter’s loss in 1980.) Don’t forget that our current President first ran in 2000; if Dubya hadn’t been riding high on incumbent advantage and 9/11 patriotism, there’s a chance he might have run again in 2004. With the stochastic nature of events, we could’ve been in this situation years earlier, too.
we can imagine gore would’ve acted cautiously in advance of 9/11 though
If his win was recognized. He probably won Florida, but they never let the hand recount he was ahead in finish.
Jan 6th was the second recent coup attempt in the US. The Brooks Brothers Riot was the first, and it was successful.
Such a fucked up situation. I like to imagine that another timeline had him become president and our government pivoted to seriously focusing more on combating climate change and pressuring the rest of the world to step up. It’s not an amazing timeline, but it’s one where the world isn’t facing imminent collapse of countless ecosystems and fascism didn’t take over the US.
Not to mention we would have lost so many fewer lives to Man-bear-pig
We would get cereal.
This is very true. RIP man-bear-pig victims.
Plus you’d get to poop just by thinking about it.
!Apologies if I butchered the family guy reference!<
Me2. Also sometimes about the arms for hostages bullshit with reagan.
Today I learned man bear pig is still alive.
And your decision to surrender the 2000s to Bush is what got us here, all because you didn’t want to go against the norms.
More specifically, he didn’t want to allow the precedent of allowing the supreme Court to simply arbitrarily pick the president if the Republicans whined enough, which is what was happening.
Good thought, bad execution.
And in that want … He allowed the supreme court the power to arbitrarily pick the president.
Maybe he should’ve, you know, fought. but Dems don’t do that.
He also didn’t want the mass unrest this would trigger.
And so people were demobilized.
