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.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jimmy Carter was the best person the states have had as president in the last fifty years at least.
Then we go and vote Ronald Reagan in after.
What’s with Republicans and voting for celebrities?
Digital_man@lemmy.one 3 weeks ago
They like to be spoken AT, not spoken WITH?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why do you capitalize words like that?
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
He was a good human being, but I don’t think anyone would call him a good president.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What was wrong with what he did?
kandoh@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
America at that time was very conservative. Then Nixon was exposed as a criminal and Ford pardoned him, which was a hell of a one-two punch to the psychy of your average American at the time.
So the next guy the got to vote for was the most Christian innocent candidate they could get their hands on. But that’s now who they really wanted. They loved Nixon, everything about him, they just didn’t like that he to ot exposed as a criminal.
So then comes Ronald Reagan, the actor.
dudinax@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
50 years? The presidents before him were Ford, Nixon and LBJ, so going back to Eisenhower at the least.
Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf 3 weeks ago
They are cult members by default and always looking for a personality to follow. Bleating moron sheep
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are people with stories and struggles like everyone else.