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Carter was weak. I agree. There is no absolute perfect system and not everyone can step in and clean up huge messes left behind. Viet Nam was an ugly war. It didn't get the same moral support here at home that WWII and Korea did. The baby boomers era and all that love peace and LSD didn't exactly make for a productive generation. You tie the hippy movement to the late 60s but these people weren't taking over corporate and working America till the 70s and that's the generation Carter had to work with. "We the People" does mean something...not sure what any more but it means something. A lot of those people grew up later in life and decided to be successful. (I think they all work for Microsoft now lol). It's really hard to say what would have worked better than what Carter tried but it's quite evident that Carter didn't pull it off. Carters bad times weren't anything near as bad as this mess we are in now though. We were all singing the blues back then because gas was almost 2 dollars a gallon...Interest rates were ridiculous. Heck...They were ridiculous long after carter. Regan never fixed that. Neither did Bush Sr. I was selling cars through all the Bush Sr years. Interest rates were high...They were excellent under Clinton.
Reaganomics was only slightly better than Carternomics. That whole trickle down thing never happened. Reagan did a great job of convincing poor and middle classed people that they would be trickled upon some day and even a lot of republicans snicker at that. Reagan gets the distinct record of having the most criminals on staff. What was it? Like over 200 top govt officials either on charges, resigning to avoid charges or sitting in front of the ethics committee at some point?
Conservatives answer to everything seems to be to go blow someone up. I fail to see how a quick trigger finger rates as "conservative".
Democrats aren't perfect either...Their way does historically provide for a better economy (minus the carter years) but the war mongers typically find the dems boring. I guess it's who we are though. We are the only nation after all that mentions bombs in our national anthem.
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