Jimmy Carter was a better President, and is a better human being, than the current occupant of the office could ever dream of being.
P.S.: still married to his first wife, too.
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Why? Jesus spoke to tax collectors and prostitutes.
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How then does the world change?
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These people will not stop being evangelicals, nor should they have to be. We must not allow them to think that must condemn them to also be horrible people. They need an example of how they may be both an evangelical and an honorable man. They need more of this not less. The goal is to change hearts and minds. We want them to vote with us, not exterminate them in some form of societal cleansing, unless your liberalism is very different from mine. Carter went where we must go, and he spoke their language with credibility. This is how you win. This is how you teach. This is how you form a broad coalition in a diverse nation.
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Carter is an evangelical as well, but with more progressive views.
Yes, like the actual teaching of Jesus Christ.
Or to quote Gandhi âI like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.â
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No, 1965 to 1971 was it; couldnât take all the excitement (g)
A dramatic increase in the number of mentally ill on the streets was one of Reaganâs notable accomplishments. His avuncular self-confidence exemplified the Dunning-Kruger effect but made conservatives feel comfortable with their reactionary revanchism again; naturally he was much beloved for so doing.
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Good for him. Not all Evangelicals are on board with Trump. Many believe in true Christian charity.
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Jimmy Carter deserves respect.
Donald Trump should be in jail.
I donât know Stormy Daniels. You have to prove me wrong.
Oh, that Stormy Daniels, but I didnât have an affair with her. You have to prove me wrong.
Oh, that affair, but I didnât pay her off. You have to prove me wrong.
Is that what that was? Well, it wasnât my money. You have to prove me wrong.
Okay, it was my money, but I canât be prosecuted. And, Iâd like to add, there was no collusion with Russia. You have to prove me wrong.
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Yes, what a gracious person he is. He is a million times better than the piece of filth that is currently living in the WH.
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Ex-President shade is the bestest shade.
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Ha! Jerry Brownâs signature is on mine from UCSB!
I was a Californian living in Idaho in 1980 and never dreamed Reagan would be elected president because he was so bad as governor.
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Brian?
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We have so many mentally ill homeless people on the streets, theyâre at least the second generation if the not the third caught up in the stinginess of reaganomicsâŚ
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It was sad to watch the comprehensive damage that Reagan and his republican successors did to the cause of good government in California. Living in Santa Monica from the mid-70âs on, we had a very large homeless population. Many of these folks were in desperate shape, and looked to be cast off from the mental institutions that Reagan closed (a heartless form of republican âfiscal responsibilityâ that he later brought to the federal level). Thereâs nothing about Reagan that deserves to be celebrated, not withstanding cynical republican efforts to con everyone into believeing that he was a great man.
And, as you noted, the whole state still has a large homeless population (certainly a major problem here in Sonoma county).
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The genius of the man was that he acted his way through the governorship and then the presidency with Nancy holding the cue cards and the astrologist in the background also providing hints.
This city puts a ton of money, billions, into homeless relief efforts and itâs become an unsolvable problem unless we want nothing more in the San Francisco economy except homeless relief instead of infrastructure repair, mass transit upgrades, affordable housing, all the big city problems which are overwhelming us. OTOH, the unemployment here is well under 3% because of the tech industries, and the young newly rich techies are the only segment of the population that are happy with the status quo.
Maybe donât judge too quickly here. Even at Liberty University, not all evangelicals support Spanky.
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Hereâs an infamous date, May 20, 1986, five years after he was shot. Still waiting for the âstrict controls.â
The legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan to weaken the 1968 gun-control act was wide ranging: âIt ends the ban on sales of rifles and other long guns by dealers in one state to customers in another and gives gun owners the right to transport unload weapons across state lines if strict controls are followed,â among other changes. Today, there are more 300 million guns in the United States."
@littlegirlblue, yes, the valorization of the 2nd amendment over others and the arming of prospective brown shirts was part and parcel of movement conservatismâs assault on democracy.
Nit pickers like to point out that movement conservatism really took off while Carter was POTUS as if that somehow exonerated Reagan who first wielded that weapon of mass democratic destruction with national effect.
Yeah, no one, especially myself, would argue that Carter is a much better person than I am. He did the right thing, no way in hell I could done that for so many reasons mostly because I think LU and Falwell suck ass.