In their mind if not for Nader’s 2000 presidential election run - Gore would have won and the US would be a liberal utopia now. That’s batshit but that’s how some of them actually view reality.
Gore would have sucked but boy wouldn’t I appreciate a crumb of climate change prevention 25 years ago. Which was at least something he had some passion about.
An interesting question is would there even be a 9/11? Not even from a Bush did 9/11 position (or any variation of Cheney and him intentionally letting it happen). The official narrative the 9/11 commission cited the contested election and slowdown from the handover from incumbent dem to ingoing republican as contributing to the 9/11 not being prevented. Like had the hijackers just all been arrested weeks before it happening it would be a real different vibe to the start of the 21th century.
But I think had it happened some sort of war on terror probably would have happened. Even possibly an Afghanistan invasion. But I don’t think the Iraq invasion and occupation would have happened as that was Cheney and Rumsfield’s thing. I think something closer to Obama and Clinton, with bombings, arming rebels, drone strikes, special forces and limited deployments over the middle east would probably have still happened.
In their mind if not for Nader’s 2000 presidential election run - Gore would have won and the US would be a liberal utopia now. That’s batshit but that’s how some of them actually view reality.
Damn it all to hell - I put a comment in the wrong thread! - https://hexbear.net/comment/5841875
Gore literally did win, then the SC did a judicial coup
They’ll say it being close enough for judicial coup is Naders fault.
Gore would have sucked but boy wouldn’t I appreciate a crumb of climate change prevention 25 years ago. Which was at least something he had some passion about.
I wonder how he would have responded to 9/11
An interesting question is would there even be a 9/11? Not even from a Bush did 9/11 position (or any variation of Cheney and him intentionally letting it happen). The official narrative the 9/11 commission cited the contested election and slowdown from the handover from incumbent dem to ingoing republican as contributing to the 9/11 not being prevented. Like had the hijackers just all been arrested weeks before it happening it would be a real different vibe to the start of the 21th century.
But I think had it happened some sort of war on terror probably would have happened. Even possibly an Afghanistan invasion. But I don’t think the Iraq invasion and occupation would have happened as that was Cheney and Rumsfield’s thing. I think something closer to Obama and Clinton, with bombings, arming rebels, drone strikes, special forces and limited deployments over the middle east would probably have still happened.