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(8,360 posts)The Republicans, though, not only had that strongly motivated portion of the Cuban-American community on its side, but once the electoral skirmish began, a team of operatives who engaged in bare-knuckled tactics and sound bemused and completely unapologetic reminiscing about them now.
Whoever deserves the credit and/or blame, the primary takeaway from 537 Votes aside from presenting Miami as a hotbed of craziness is that while Gores representative, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, wanted to send the world a broader message about decorum and democracy, Republican steadfastly focused on victory. Toward that end, their efforts to halt the vote counting including the so-called Brooks Brothers Riot were run with care and with shrewdness and evil intent, and it worked, Miami political reporter Michael Putney says....
While some of the details might have faded with memory, 537 Votes nicely encapsulates the descent of politics into a blood sport where rivals are viewed as enemies, not opponents. Wherever one falls on the political spectrum, reliving the tumult and mayhem of that campaign its reasonable to hope the past isnt prologue, and that what happened in Florida two decades ago doesnt serve as the extended trailer for 2020.
537 Votes premieres Oct. 21 at 9 p.m. on HBO.
https://abc17news.com/entertainment/2020/10/21/537-votes-revisits-florida-election-chaos-in-2000-as-a-prelude-to-2020/
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)over 500,000. (I had read that the number was over a million but it is hard to count these things)
Either way those people who lied and cheated to get Bush in a responsible for this.
"Brown Universitys Costs of War Project this month released a new estimate of the total death toll from the U.S. wars in three countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The numbers, while conservatively estimated, are staggering. Browns researchers estimate that at least 480,000 people have been directly killed by violence over the course of these conflicts, more than 244,000 of them civilians. In addition to those killed by direct acts violence, the number of indirect deaths those resulting from disease, displacement, and the loss of critical infrastructure is believed to be several times higher, running into the millions."
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/19/civilian-casualties-us-war-on-terror/
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superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)Makes one angry, depressed, melancholic, vengeful...
I look forward to a Biden victory, but dread the days that will follow the election.