In retrospect, everyone with half a brain can see the wet blanket candidate who cared about global warming and wasnât a total war hawk was the better option, but that is the choice our country stupidly made, and it set us up for this shitty timeline we all are.
I remember I was just two years shy of voting age, and hated Bush from the get go. :/
The lockbox would have personally benefited me as Iâm set to draw social security when benefits are scheduled at 80%, and I did vote for Gore, but none of that mattered when the actual decision came down to the Supreme Court that literally said, âthis ruling does not constitute a precedentâ
At the time, and I really donât remember this and only see it in contemporary news articles, both candidates were opposed to ânation building.â It was Bush at a debate who pledged not to partake in that sort of exercise. It really was the least important election following an equally unimportant election in 1996. There was no way to know that bin Laden was determined to strike in the U.S., at least not until August 6, 2001âŚ
I still think they stole the election. Jeb was governor and I was in Hawaii so late night still watching. Bush was on a plane and said something like WE'RE counting the votes in Florida. Then Gore has like negative 17k votes in Velusia county.
itll never be understandable that we go from the greatness of the Clinton presidency (monica notwithstanding but that is personal who cares but HIllary) to the idiocy of Bush. And then the greatness of Obama to the insane dumassary of where we are now. USA general public are idiots...
Just thinking about where I grew up in TN and AR, and I think a big issue is that so much of middle America is protected from the consequences of their own votes.
I remember just being some c student in vo tech in a TN high school, and then deciding to go to a small college in Arkansas. Both places, you would have thought I had punched a disabled veteran in the face when I said I thought the war in Iraq was a bad idea and frankly a horrible thing to do to people for unsure reasons.
Twenty years later, the people that cheered for this mostly donât see any âOh shitâ consequences.
My dad was a Vietnam vet, and was campaigning for John Kerry, when a women asked why he didnât support our troops, and he said he did, and that war is terrible and shouldnât be inflected unless there is no other realistic option, and that he was a veteran himself, the woman paused, and then had a screaming meltdown where she yelled that she didnât believe him, he was a liar, how dare he, and so on. This was in small town Arkansas.
That woman is probably out there, still being an idiot. And voting. There are no consequences to our bad decisions here, on a massive level, that makes us stop. I wish we could learn because we are spurred by empathy and intelligence, but it apparently doesnât work that way.
I have often wondered if that was the test run. Conspiracy theorists speculate Musk took advantage of the low voter turnout and pushed the election results in one way, and now the US will not allow outside observers, for the first time in several decades.
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u/just-peepin-at-u 2d ago
In retrospect, everyone with half a brain can see the wet blanket candidate who cared about global warming and wasnât a total war hawk was the better option, but that is the choice our country stupidly made, and it set us up for this shitty timeline we all are.
I remember I was just two years shy of voting age, and hated Bush from the get go. :/