President Jimmy Carter has passed away

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by Vaslo on Sunday December 29, 2024 @06:37PM (#42544625)

Nah - that Carter was good is leftist revisionist nonsense. The biggest revisionist history take is that Ronald Reagan was somehow worse than Carter and did something bad. In reality, Reagan was elected in 49 of the 50 states for his reelection. Tons of democrats voted for Reagan - he was far superior to his predecessor.

Carter was weak on US policy and horrible with economics and learned the hard way that the government needs to take a slight hand when it comes to economics.

Also, stop worrying about the climate change doomsday cult. You’ll be fine, we will all be fine. Worry about real problems.

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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by sweeter on Sunday December 29, 2024 @07:05PM (#42544857)

You cannot look at any American institution without seeing something that Reagan destroyed. His legacy has had lasting detrimental impacts to this day. Just some examples are the privatization of Colleges, the privatization of healthcare, the near annihilation of labor unions, he ignored the AIDS epidemic for years, his mental health reforms made homeless and crime exponentially worse... Watergate, Iran-Contra and the overthrowing of Sandinista in Nicaragua. All issues of which persist to this day. He is also the sole reason that we do not have national health insurance.

Thats not even touching the corruption, lobbying scandals, the grant rigging, the EPA scandals, the 160 billion dollar in "charity" given to banks to bail them out, Operation Ill Wind etc... You could fill books with this mans horrific legacy and its lasting detrimental impact on society. If you can trace the root of our modern problems to one man it would be Reagan.

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