Not just that if Gore had won and 9-11 would have still happened we would have likely seen a push away from oil starting in the early 2000s. I think Gore could've turned that into an opportunity to say "to hell with these middle east authoritarians and their oil, we can do better for ourselves and better for the planet."

Unfortunately I was 6 when 9-11 happened so I didn't have much say in these matters.

Yeah, this was always my big one too. I'm a green at heart, but I learned a brutal lesson then, that I'll carry inside of me forever. A lesson that has only gotten reinforced by the slow march of modern fascism.

Democracy requires dialogue, patience, empathy and compromise. The alternative is authoritarianism, and the unavoidable power struggles that come from too much centralized power in a world with ambitious humans. We need to remember that, and dialogue and compromise with our, in many ways younger-self progressives, instead of trying to corral them. We can do this. We are not too afraid.

Give em hell Bernie.

Ugh...you're 1000% right. That timeline sounds wonderful.

Yeah I think with gore we’d’ve had a good chance of being the world leader in switching to green energy right around when hummers got popular instead.

His EO's alone would have accomplished more in one term than any Dem since LBJ.

Fix the whole last century and just assassinate Wilson in 1911-1912 before the damn election.

It's possible we'd be in a better situation now. Lots of obvious things like not tossing out known facts about terrorism efforts and having a climate change awareness leadership. There's much that would still be the same, like the system of consumerism that is the core of much of our problems. One person in a limited power seat can't fix that, I'm not sure anything can outside of failure of the system itself. But I do think we would have at least avoided that one historic turning point that revved back up the military drive of the US. Even GWB's administration was looking into ways of reducing the military into smaller, more mobile parts until suddenly we went into revenge mode. Or useful crisis mode.

I always find myself thinking about Gore winning more often.

We might be thinking about Biden winning his second term as Nazis take over the US in the future - Get your friends to vote

I voted for Bernie every chance I've had, but I genuinely doubt he could have achieved the current level of success much less something better.

Without a Congress full of like-minded people, it would have been a struggle. I think we can have someone like Bernie for president one day, but it's people being passionate and engaging with every vote and every election.

Undoubtedly they would've sabotaged Bernie every chance they got, just like the labour party sabotaged Corbyn in the UK. Both of those parties are glad they only had to sabotage during the elections.

Remember when this was challenged and the court ruled the Parties have no obligation to play fair

I mean, he did.

The 2000 election was decided by the Supreme Court, not the voters.

a significant portion of the US population thinks trump is a fascist, how would he have a chance of winning enough votes?

there's a reason hilary fought so hard to have trump as the republican nominee in 2016.

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am i doing it right?