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Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany (www.politico.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

And your decision to surrender the 2000s to Bush is what got us here, all because you didn't want to go against the norms.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

More specifically, he didn't want to allow the precedent of allowing the supreme Court to simply arbitrarily pick the president if the Republicans whined enough, which is what was happening.

Good thought, bad execution.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And in that want ... He allowed the supreme court the power to arbitrarily pick the president.

Maybe he should've, you know, fought. but Dems don't do that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's hardly fair. democrats fight Progressives every chance they get.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Progressives don't fight either.

All modern leftists are either inactive, or they're mostly just analyzing the politics, with some light protest that isn't really commited enough to win unless the fascists decide to just fold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

ah yes, this is the attitude that will fix everything

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

He also didn't want the mass unrest this would trigger.

And so people were demobilized.