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In reply to the discussion: We missed having Gore, Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Harris as president. [View all]OhioBack2Blue
(73 posts)11. Prior to that Mondale (Running mate Geraldine Ferraro), then Dukakis /Bentson
I can't help thinking that our country would be in a better place today if we had been able to send these Democrats to the White House... especially Al Gore.
My own life, as some who is intentionally oppressed by the system, would be massively improved. My guess is millions of our lives would have been completely different in a profoundly positive way.
Current case in point: If Dems had won 2024, I would have likely received:
1) Student loan relief = $60,000 (Pell grant recipient, 12 years of payments made, and predatory interest forcing the total due to go higher not lower every day).
2) Medicare at age 60 (under the proposed Democratic expansion), so health insurance coverage and avoidance of medical debt will be unpreventable now given I have a medically necessary surgery coming up.
3) and my wife would be able to keep her job, likely to get erased when Trash takes office and destroys the govt. Mtg and bill payments versus homelessness.
The first two items alone would have amounted to a well over $100,000.00 financial turnaround for me. Just these two changes! The third, if she is allowed to keep her job, would make the amount above double or triple. So real world consequences. This isn't even calculating the potential positive outcomes from all the other lost presidencies listed above, had they won!
What would I have done with the new financial freedom from just the first two items above?
1) Adopted an older child
2) Started a business I have always wanted to start so I could have income
3) Replaced a 40 year old hydronic boiler
4) Replace a 17 year old car with over 250,000 miles on it
I am telling ya', if Trash does any major thing for everyday Americans (working class, low income retired, and those not employed through not fault of their own, etc) that makes a marked financial difference in all of our lives, the Dems will never see the light of day again. Luckily for us Dems, the American Fascist party won't do one thing to help the 99%.
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We missed having Gore, Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Harris as president. [View all]
milestogo
Dec 2024
OP
I blame Fox News, and people who support Fox with sat/cable subscriptions
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Dec 2024
#3
Absolutely. And those damned purple heart band-aids Republicans mocked him with
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Dec 2024
#8
Prior to that Mondale (Running mate Geraldine Ferraro), then Dukakis /Bentson
OhioBack2Blue
Dec 2024
#11
Oddly enough, the three Republicans that lost over the last 28 years were better than the two R's who won
Polybius
Dec 2024
#16
VP Gore gave a sermon at The Cathedral of St John The Divine the year before he ran with Clinton when his book came out
electric_blue68
Dec 2024
#17
It's always hard for one party to win three presidential elections in a row.
bearsfootball516
Jan 2025
#26
I voted for Kerry. I like the man. But, Edwards would have tanked that whole administration.
PeaceWave
Jan 2025
#27