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In reply to the discussion: The Guardian: 'Decades ahead of his time': history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter [View all]halfulglas
(1,654 posts)4. I voted for him twice and have no regrets.
A true "good man." He was even vilified for conceding too soon supposedly discouraging the voting on the West Coast. Ironically the residents of states that should be most attuned to his message, the farming states with big ag and big fertilizer have turned against his environmental message of respect for the environment. Reagan, like Trump, showed a disrespect and downright meanness for those who came before him.
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The Guardian: 'Decades ahead of his time': history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter [View all]
kpete
May 2021
OP
Carter's Sec of Transportation ordered "seat belts in all cars" & saved tens of thousands of lives.
Stuart G
May 2021
#5
Not quite. It speaks as it did then to the effectiveness of the RW propaganda machine
Ford_Prefect
May 2021
#26
If we'd gone to renewable energy, then not so many Wars For Oil and dead people. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2021
#20
Not only have I always thought that JEC was a severely underrated President,
BobTheSubgenius
May 2021
#24
In a long and horrible history of sleazy moves, this one is a show-stopper.
BobTheSubgenius
May 2021
#45
"Carter was our only president who had a visceral environmental and ecological attachment. "
Ferrets are Cool
May 2021
#41