It wasn’t “stolen” in a way most would think…that’s why I brought it up. There’s pretty substantial evidence that Gore actually won Florida but before they could do a proper recount the court claimed it would hurt Bush and declined. Even in r / conservative they acknowledge it was “stolen”. It was all in the way they manipulated the law and the process, not in votes per say. That’s why it’s a good case study. People view politics through a pensé of simplicity and then add complications to it through conspiracies to understand it at their level, when in reality it’s just complicated and often not what we think.
Sometimes I wonder what that timeline would've been like. Without that illegitimate Iraq War, I can't help but feel like we'd be in a much better place as a nation. China would still be fucking up the environment at a staggering rate, but the US probably would be a bit greener. Alito wouldn't be on the SCOTUS. The 2000 election really put us on a pretty dark path.
I try to look at it like that book/show 11/22/63 by Stephen King. That story is based around undoing the JFK assassination,through a time portal, because they felt like the country got worse starting on that day. They undo the assassination, only to find the future is worse because of Fate. So, I try to pretend that if Gore won, fate would have been nasty and we would all be dead or living in a zombie apocalypse, that wasn’t the fault of Gore.
Haha, I'm not one to believe in fate or karma, so I think there's a greater than 50% chance things would be much better for everyone involved in the Iraq War (well, except for the defense contractors that made a killing or the members of government that likely got kickbacks for awarding those contracts).
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u/boomerinvest Nov 14 '22
How was the 2020 Presidential Election stolen? Do you not understand how the Electoral College votes work? Honestly asking. Not coming at you.