I wanna say a bunch of sappy shit but nothing sounds right. God I wish there were more good people in positions of power. Thanks for all you did President Carter.
He spoke to the American public like they were intelligent caring individuals. And they despised him for it. Immediately, overwhelmingly electing a huckster charlatan that told them they were all wonderful and perfect little children. Many of whom still worship that man to this day. With Trump being his second coming.
We truly never deserved jimmy. But we still desperately need someone like him to this day.
The media had a big hand in Reagan being elected over Carter. Every newscast every night had a clock on the number of days the US hostages were held by the Iranians. This was a constant reminder on what was perceived as Carter’s failure. So much so, that Reagan sent George Scholtz, to Iran to make a deal for them to keep the hostages until after the election. Which was the begining of Iran-Contra. Anyway, that was the real reason.
If inclined to donate: Habitat for Humanity
There’s also the Carter Center, which does some work that seems increasingly important what with the attacks against free elections lately across the world.
I can count how many I respect in the U.S. on one hand. It’s… Something I try not to think about these days.
Everything is in decline, the ignorant just don’t know it yet… And there’s no way out for those of us stuck in this system. The wealthy can buy their bunkers, but the rest of us will live it.
Elon, Jeff, Trump… They are making a world they will never have to live in.
The last thing he witnessed was the US’s fall into true Nazism
Maybe the only US president I can think of who seemed like a genuinely good person. But I wasn’t alive during his presidency so I don’t know what things may have happened then.
I was. Though too young to have any solid memories of it. But I remember growing up all the hate and ridicule thrown at him because he dared to treat Americans like they were intelligent adults.
That “hate and ridicule” was the beginning of the right wing media takeover we’re still dealing with today, coupled to with an emerging corporate media that only reports scandals and problems to draw ratings. It was and still is absolutely awful.
Well the beginning of the next stage. You have to remember in the 1930s they plotted to overthrow and kill FDR. Fortunately FDR found out about it before they acted. But instead of trying and hanging everyone involved as he should have done. And adequately documenting it. He instead did Back Room negotiations to temporarily pass new deal policies. Which the people he let skate have spent the last 100 years slowly undoing.
his election in 1976 was the first one i remember. i was in primary school at the time. i got to stay up to watch the news coverage on tv that night.
i’ve been a dfl’er ever since.
in our own mock elections at school, he won by a wide margin (and again in 1980, as did mondale in 1984). in 1980, i was one of the kids in class assigned to stump for carter for a class project.
he will always be near the top of my list of favorite or ‘best’ presidents.
Everyone I know who was alive at that time has a negative opinion of him as a president but I never really understood it fully.
The long and the short of it. Oil crisis and Reagan’s hostage sabotage in Iran. It’s really not that much different to anything today. Listen to any conservative complaint about contemporary Democrats and you will hear clear inane echoes.
He told Americans that we just need to tighten our belts and we will get through it. As he had personally done as a young member of the silent generation during the depression. Reagan told them all they were special little sausages. And should cater to their every greedy Indulgence. I’m sure you can guess which message they liked better. The same message they got this time.
Americans have not and will never learn their lesson as long as the wealthy own the media. Telling people what they want to hear. And turning them against those that would help them in any way.
A lot of it had to do with the Iran hostage crisis (1979-81). There was a failed rescue attempt by US military in 1980 that cost the lives of 8 servicement (chopper crash) that really put the nail in the coffin for Carter.
The final death knell was the October surprise theory (supported by “several individuals—most notably, former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr, former Lieutenant Governor of Texas Ben Barnes, former naval intelligence officer and U.S. National Security Council member Gary Sick, and Barbara Honegger, a former campaign staffer and White House analyst for Reagan and his successor, George H. W. Bush—have stood by the allegation.” source). While the theory does have its detractors it has a lot of support by those in the know.
I was around back then and remember watching Carter almost wither away under the onslaught from Reagan and the Moral Majority.
It is exactly like today. What Carter did, just like what Biden has done more recently , was drowned out by hate fueled character assassination. Yes Carter was a genuine nice human being wanting the best for everyone but at the same time Reagan was genuinely likable, believable. He was “the great communicator”. So like today, only a much nicer person getting his character assassinated but by somberly influential rather than todays centrism, racism, hatred and spite.
Carter also told people things they didn’t want to hear but had to. He was the genuine “telling it like it is”.
I was alive at the time e and thought Carter was a great president. I may have been biased by even then preferring engineers. However I also got swept up in the wave of Reaganism along with everyone else. Yes, I believed cities were hellish gang ridden dystopias, the countryside filled with “welfare queens” collecting generational wealth by pumping out babies, and college elite using abortion at will as just casual contraception. I still believe Reagan hastened the fall of the Soviet Union by outspending them in an arms race. I was surely naive at the time but also Reagan was that good to make you believe anything
He was a little too naive as president. I think that was because he was too wholesome a person to really be in the role. But he did okay. He wasn’t a great president, but equally he wasn’t terrible. And he didn’t deserve the hate and ridiculous he’s received since. Especially considering his presidency was seriously undermined by his rivals.
I"m guessing Suharto and the Shah don’t exist in whatever fantasy world you live in?
I mean I openly stated that I don’t know too much about his presidency. Maybe you could explain instead of posting snarky one-liners?
He was a huge supporter of the shah of Iran and his mass torture and murder programs and Suharto of Indonesia and his mass murder of “labor” and his genocide of East Timor. He also sent a bunch of money to the El Salvadorian dictatorship they used to fund death squads, started the us funding of the mujahedin in Afghanistan we all know where that lead, supported mass killing in Angola by South Africa and the Congo both separately. I could keep going to his equality deplorable crimes with Grenada, Liberia, South Korea i could go on and on. Point is he was a bad dude.
Someone who wanted to not appear that he had a conflict of interest with his businesses…he sold his peanut farm. Boy… If only that amount of transparency was the norm with who will be running the country in a few weeks 🙄
Whaddya mean, the first time he paraded around boxes of blank paper to completely prove he had fully divested.
There are really good reasons to keep secret the totally real documents you’re openly describing & talking about (lol)
To be fair we don’t know if they were blank or official presidential documents like:
Bye Jimmy. Thank you for helping to eradicate the Guinea worm. That alone makes you one of the greatest men to walk the earth.
