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Welcome to 2000...
I turn 39 this year. Growing up in the 90s it seemed like post cold war things might be looking up. Lofuckingl.
It did. Then SCOTUS threw the presidency to Bush and commercial airliners flew into tall buildings in NY.
Imagine the Gore timeline. I know we can agree this is the culmination of Nixon and the Southern Strategy for 60+ years. Or maybe that we let things persist by not cleaning house after the Civil War.
But imagine the restoration of all the good will toward America deteriorated by decades of imperialism btwn WW2 and 9/11.. and Gore was at the helm instead of the Neocons.
The climate alone.. peace in the middle east instead of oil wars.. banking regulations.. so many other timelines we'll never know.. Too much power in that court.
Oh, Al Gore DEFINITELY won in Florida, that was figured out in January of '01, but by then the Supreme Court had already installed Bush.
Had they allowed the count to continue, Gore would have been President.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/29/uselections2000.usa
"In each case, if the newly examined votes had been allowed to count in the November election, Mr Gore would have won Florida's 21 electoral college votes by a narrow majority and he, not Mr Bush, would be the president. Instead, Mr Bush officially carried Florida by 537 votes after recounts were stopped.
In spite of the findings, no legal challenge to the Florida result is possible in the light of the US supreme court's 5-4 ruling in December to hand the state to Mr Bush."