Wow. You really drank the Kool aid hardcore didn’t you?
Sad really, mental decline is a tragedy.
Comment on Jimmy Carter : The Most [Unfairly] Hated President of the United States - Documentary
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
My father is a lifelong democrat. My mother is a naturalized citizen from Great Britain. I was in high school during Jimmy Carter’s presidency. I was mocked in high school for making a presentation where I advocated for disarmament.
All that being said, the presidency of Jimmy Carter was one of the scariest and most upsetting presidencies I can remember. I had never experienced inflation of that level before. The gas rationing and concern about whether we were going to have the means to carry out the basic functions we needed to complete was real. It was the first experience we had with worldwide terrorism, and there were over 300 Americans being held hostage in a foreign land with no sign of progress.
Jimmy Carter was no doubt a good man. I believe he was woefully underqualified to run the country. I know that he is lauded these days, but I’m telling you from the perspective of someone who lived through his presidency, it was not a good time for me or my family.
As one of the posts here makes clear, he wasn’t even good from a Democrat point of view.
Wow. You really drank the Kool aid hardcore didn’t you?
Sad really, mental decline is a tragedy.
How do you think Jimmy carter failed to address these issues policy wise?
Read the post by TrippyFocus. I didn’t realize it at the time, but he literally caused them.
pregnantwithrage@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s interesting because it was after my time but hindsight kind of showed he was right in principal but wasn’t a great statesman and couldn’t do the political calculationing behind the scenes to rally his own party much less unit both sides.
I vaguely know about the Ollie North and how the hostage situation before his second election run sabotaged his campaign but that seems to be more a nail in the coffin rather than the only reason.