Pop culture of the early 00's under Gore

samcster94

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Let's say Gore is a one term President, beaten by McCain or another Republican not named Bush in 2004, but that element is not important, albeit 9/11(or something similar) still happens. How does pop culture develop if he is in charge, and he governs a lot like Bill Clinton???
 
Depending on what Gore does vis a vis civil liberties, you wouldn't have movies like "Minority Report" questioning the merits of government surveillance, imprisoning people without trial, etc. Activist filmmakers such as Michael Moore would focus their energies on attacking a centrist Democratic leadership instead of lampooning a Republican President. On the whole I don't see any major changes, but those are some minor ones that come to mind.
 
Futurama can pride themselves on the fact that they had a president show up on their show(Anthology of Interest happens before the POD) and that it's something Gore was a big fan of. Maybe we could get a Simpsons episode of a return of George HW Bush for a rematch with his son Jeb, but former president Al Gore comes to help them
 
Let's say Gore is a one term President, beaten by McCain or another Republican not named Bush in 2004, but that element is not important, albeit 9/11(or something similar) still happens. How does pop culture develop if he is in charge, and he governs a lot like Bill Clinton???
Why not win relection, full 8 years that is for bigger impact
 

samcster94

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Depends, still gore have it easier and 8 years we can have a bigger impact and a earlier gore and a late gore goverment
That in itself would be interesting too(16 years of Democrats). Even giving Dems 12 years(which they failed at twice in OTL) would be a big change.
 
8 years of gore would mean 16 years of Clinton-style dem rule, which would burn it out. Trump, Sessions or Pence in 2008, I guess as the most likely counter-reaction.
 
Even 12 might burn it out.

Yeah. No party has won four consecutive White House terms since WWII. And if the war had not been going on in 1944 Dewey would most likely have beaten FDR. Gore will get a huge popularality bump after 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan, but like Bush Sr that will change once the economy weakens (as it did in OTL when there was a recession from 2001-03) and his party splits apart on domestic issues. Gore will have to compromise with a Republican Congress, something the liberal base won't like. Clinton was able to get away with this because of his mastery of PR (same goes for Reagan with a Democratic Congress, as opposed to Bush 41) but I don't think Gore would and the Green Party would gain in strength. IMO McCain wins in 2004 by outflanking Gore on national security and the economy, and the Green Party could get at least 3-4% nationally and therefore split the Democratic vote in key states. Gore would be seen as a Democratic analog to Bush 41.

As for popular culture, maybe we see a HBO special about the political leadership during 9/11. Gore would be portrayed as a Churchill-like figure who leads America during a major crisis, only to be thrown out of office once circumstances change. In the long term this would help the Democrats on national security issues, as they could point to their successful handling of 9/11.
 
Honesty, I see Gore as being a one term. He have the incumbent advantage, but I can see a John McCain maverick winning 2004, or even Bush makes a comeback victory in 04. The whole impeachment deal with Bill and all that left a bad taste with everyone.

9/11 happens and we're going into Afghanistan would have everyone questions the Dems and Bill Clinton and Gore about why they failed to stop the attacks, another blow to Gore and the Dems.
 
New Labour was actually in power for 13 years from 1997-2010, so if anything 12 years of Clinton/Gore is closer than 16 years.

I suppose, although New Labour was mainly brought down by the recession no?

A shining era of left-neoliberalism from the 90s to the collapse of the global economy is the general idea I have.
 
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