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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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] 10 points 15 hours 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] 10 points 14 hours ago

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 14 hours ago

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

And so people were demobilized.