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By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 15 Sep 22 4:54 PM | 18 view(s)
Boardmark this board | The Trust Matrix 		Msg. 47077 of 54809
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It certainly created one sort of mess. The loss of US prestige over Iraq was (and is) a real issue. I think it may have recovered some over Ukraine.

But the growth of identity politics and the culture of victimhood would have been worse if the Dems had had the presidency all along.

And presumably, the development of the toxic right would have found a means of expression one way or another.

The last bastion of centrist politics in the US is the liberal part of the Democratic Party. It's really a bad thing that the GOP doesn't have an equivalent section on the centre-right, holding positions roughly like those of the UK Conservative Party. I do hope that kind of view finds a place in US politics. That was one reason I found Lindsey Graham's suggestion on abortion interesting. He was searching for a right-of-centre compromise instead of the usual absolute zero model.


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Re: Thoreau (cactus flower reply)
By: clo2 in ALEA
Thu, 15 Sep 22 4:42 PM 		Msg. 47076 of 54809

Oh yes Cactus Flower,

Broward was a can of worms, from the position of Pat Buchanan on the ballot, because of that placement many Jewish people voted for him by mistake.
That in itself would have made all the difference.

Those damn chads.

The funny thing IMO, GWB was at his ranch in Texas doing manual work, cutting brush, I got the opinion he didn't really want the job, but was talked into it.

Meanwhile Al would've helped count the votes, if he could.

IMO, that election & the one Hillary lost even though she had more than 2 million more votes, is the reason this country is a mess.

Al never would've attacked Iraq.

Just take a moment to consider that... what a difference that would have made.

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