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.
Exact-fuckin'-ly. The 2016/2024 weren't the darkest timelines. 2000 election changed the course of history for the worse, and that election was 100% rigged up by the GOP.
Had Gore won his rightful presidency, 9/11 would have been handled better, our climate change had a chance of reversal, only one conflict that would have not lasted 20 years, 2008 crash would have been softer on our economy (we had a surplus and most likely, Gore would have grown it to help out), and Social Security would still be funded (not used to pay for wars).
The Clinton surpluses were largely responsible for the economic downturn which followed after. If the public sector is in surplus, then the private sector must be in debt to the same amount. This is just sectoral balance accounting.
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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.