re: What changed political views and the animosity of parties so much in 2000?

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I am a staunch conservative but... Gore got screwed in 2000 and the left never forgot it. Clinton was the democrats version of Reagan. When his successor was screwed, that was it. Ballot screw ups (mainly people voting for Pat Buchanan by accident) gave Bush the win. The left never forgot this. The GOP didn't cheat but the Dems were screwed in 2000. Not my president was born in 2000.

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I’m not going to argue against him getting screwed in Florida but let’s not pretend like there wasn’t forms of ballot harvesting, souls to the polls, and other illegalities going on from the other side.

If I can remind you, Broward County never got their results in till after the panhandle closed and always had very late dumps that tended to swing elections at some points.

Broward County has been super efficient since 2019 wen Destantis cut out the BS.


But to the OP, it was 3 things,

- people on the right dropping Bush, which should have lead to him beating Clinton. He was very popular but his “no new taxes” did him in.

-Clinton getting impeached but not removed. I know he lied about something very innocuous and mostly inconsequential, but he lied under oath and all of us would do jail time if we did the same. The left saw it as a witch hunt and the right saw it as democrats in the senate letting him be above the law

-2000 election. Left felt screwed by ballots in Florida, the right felt like the left was cheating and ballot stuffing.

9/11 put a damper on tempers for a bit but by 2008 all of that was remembered.