Re-lived
I believe in year 2000, people took to the streets also. The pundits said Gore was uninspiring, elitist, didn't bring then President Bill Clinton to the stump. Progressives voting for Nader the spoiler were to blame. All in all a very similar script. Bush the town fool, the draft dodger, the DUI, cocaine snorting anti-intellectual became president without having the popular vote. A motley crew of deplorables took the country by storm: Ashcroft, Chaney, the hispanic that wrote about how torture is not torture and Condy the black classical pianist that didn't think Osama Bin Laden was important enough. People were in disbelief, "down with the electoral college" they said. The electors are not bound they could make Gore president. They would be saving the Nation. It has all been said before. The comedians thought they would have a 4year field day. Comedy Central even made a show "That's my Bush!" They would mock him for the whole term. Conveniently, 9/11 came and wiped away the smirk off our faces, any hope for resistance gone. Unity was mandatory a moral imperative. Everyone piped down and accepted frisking at the airport and the subway. War in the Middle east began and it is yet to end --- it's been 16years. As I write about the past, am I also predicting the future? What will shut us up this time? What will give this unwanted president legitimacy? #election2000 #gorebush #legitimatetrump #electoralcollege