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Ronald Reagan?! The Actor?!
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God, if we are going to be forced to elect a goddamned fossil, could it be Carter instead of Biden or Trump? Please. He has only had one term. He was truly Tue last president who really was just a genuinely good guy. Obama was good and he did a lot of good things, Biden is really trying to push on stuff, but has a dubious history at best. I wasn't even fucking alive when Carter was president, but I know he is the only past president in my lifetime who STILL HELPS BUILD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOUSES. Period. Full stop. That is ignoring the fact he is 99 years old. Like, can we have that energy in politics please?
Um Carter had been in hospice for some time unfortunately. He has lived an amazing life and was super active into his 90s but we are unfortunately past that. I get what you're saying though and it's sad he lost originally.
Only mark against Carter I can think of is the deregulation of air travel.
Even there Reagan was like, "Hold my Movie Script" and crushed the airline industry union, essentially leading to the post-labor era.
With all the news about Air Traffic Controllers falling asleep and making poor decisions, would be nice if Democrats connected this failure to Reagan's fuck-up, but I guess the electorate is too short-sighted to connect the dots.
Oh yeah, in typical repub fashion he made things worse.
His most odiously visible legacy, methinks, is “trickle down economics”. Never has a more blatantly pro-Parasite-Class lie been punted so effectively.
The Volcker Shock, his mishandling of Iran and Afghanistan, and his heavy reliance on privatization as a means of devolving federal powers to the states all paled beside what Reagan eventually put us through. But they moved us in a similar direction.
Carter was the last President to win the votes of the segregationist south. Perhaps his brand of moderate centrism was the best the Dems could field against Ford. But I would not have called him a particular good President. A lot of what he said and did upon leaving office contradicted what he said and did while in office. Similar to LBJ in that regard.
Ahh those are good points to raise, im not a yank and I wasn't alive in the early 80s. But thanks for letting me know!