Just terrible…
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You could’ve fooled me, because you’re coming across as someone who hates Carter to the point you don’t acknowledge anything positive he might have accomplished. I’m still not sure exactly why; perhaps you could enlighten us?
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By far the most progressive president since Eisenhower, at least when it comes to actions.
- The Economic Opportunity Act
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965
- The Immigration and Nationality Act
- The Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Head Start, Food Stamps, Work Study, Model Cities as part of budgets in his 2nd(ish) term
- The Gun Control Act of 1968
Basically, the most progressive Democratic term in office in the 20th Century behind only FDR. His biggest mistakes were his handling of Vietnam and allowing the FBI to surveil Martin Luther King, Jr.
With all of the above, in terms of actions he could have been a literal vampire and still looked like a hero to history compared to pretty much anyone since.
I would give both Carter and Obama the nod as better people but LBJ has them both beat in terms of progress.
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I first read that as “allowing the FBI to survive Martin Luther King, Jr.”.
Which, given that it was J Edgar running it at the time, I thought “yeah, that’s fair.”
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He did that, a lot, and TPTB hated it and denounced him for being a scold, most famously after “the Malaise Speech,” when Carter said a bunch of sensible and true things and never said the word “malaise”
They wanted a tax-cut sugar daddy instead who would tell everybody flattering lies, so we got Reagan, a man just as evil as Trump but a much more convincing liar
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