• DahGangalang
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, it’s nice to think what could have been, but still feels like a long shot at best.

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      8 months ago

      Gore won both the popular vote and the electoral college, and while a staged right-wing riot caused significant confusion, and ultimately the Democratic party decided that ‘decorum’ was more important than stopping the conservative movement.

      History isn’t inevitable, but nothing has fundementally changed about how Liberals and Democrats view strategy and politics; this should cause to to strongly consider the value or wisdom of statements like Blue No Matter Who, if even when victorious, they refuse to take it.

      Its not a long shot. It actually is the timeline we should be on and Gore was *impeccably clear about climate change being his priority. He won, by both the electoral college final count and the popular vote. The election was stolen from the American people but is relegated to a modern folk tale, in-spite of it actually being reality.

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        8 months ago

        Gore absolutely did not make climate change his priority in 2000. That’s just a straight up lie. He campaigned almost entirely on the economy and reforming social security and Medicare. Climate change was NOT a top issue for voters or for Gore in 2000.

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          Oh no, we might have gotten social security and Medicare funding fixed, so people today wouldn’t be looking at poverty in their old age? What would gen z be if they were allowed hope and dreams?

          And imagine a presidential candidate willing to fix intractable long term problems, who was later found to be very serious about climate change?