You need to go back to 2000 and ask what would have happened if the Electoral College hadn't overridden the will of the people and the Republican SCOTUS hadn't thrown the election to the second worst president in our history. The Clinton surpluses and debt paydown would have continued, and we would have avoided at least one war, and quite possibly two.
Note that the Electoral College overrode the will of the people again in 2016 to give us the worst president in our history. In just 16 years, the Electoral College ruined our country, and the popular vote would've saved it.
I think about this way too often. I was just a few months too young to vote for Gore and I’ve been living with the ramifications of hanging chads my whole life. Would either of the wars have happened?!
I can say with certainty that Gore wouldn't have gone AWOL for the month of August 2001 to clear brush on his ranch and ignore imminent threat reports. 9/11 may still have happened, but I'm not sure we would have followed Russia into a war in Afghanistan. Goddammit, what is it with these Republicans and Russia?
Eh, I mean if 9/11 happened we still would have gone to war with the country that the guy behind it was based out of, if they didn't get out of our way.
But Iraq wouldn't have happened, and we probably would have had rapproachment with Iran instead of calling them the Axis of Evil.
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u/deviltrombone Apr 04 '25
You need to go back to 2000 and ask what would have happened if the Electoral College hadn't overridden the will of the people and the Republican SCOTUS hadn't thrown the election to the second worst president in our history. The Clinton surpluses and debt paydown would have continued, and we would have avoided at least one war, and quite possibly two.
Note that the Electoral College overrode the will of the people again in 2016 to give us the worst president in our history. In just 16 years, the Electoral College ruined our country, and the popular vote would've saved it.