it’s time. electric six, the cheesy sex jokester band of early millennium, was moved by bush II to write a few political songs. the spirit feels more appropriate than ever, of course. clown band song for clown world.
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Great American Satan
Opposing any & all Status Quo Warriors
I really think the facts about Carter are purposefully manipulated by the media.
The economic boom of the 80s was directly connected to Carter’s anti inflation moves and anti OPEC moves but our media wants Reagan’s tax cuts to get the credit. Because our media is owned by the rich and the rich want more tax cuts and more deregulation. Why can I say this? Becasue we have an historical record that tax cuts don’t stimulate the economy anywhere near as much as such stimulus packages as the Obama stimulus package or the Biden package. And the biggest tax increase in history was followed by an economic boom in the 90s.
And those anti inflation moves, that Carter knew would be imposed by Volcker caused the economy to crash. But what Carter did worked to tame inflation while what Nixon and Ford did to control inflation had no affect because they weren’t brave enough to do what needed to be done and that was appoint a tight money manager to the Fed, which Carter did. So Carter sacrificed his presidency to fix the economy for the American people.
Also, Gorbachev said in his first book that Carter did more to promote the collapse of the USSR than Reagan because the Russian people saw in Carter some genuine decency that went against all the anti American propaganda they had seen up to then. (Not to mention but per Gorbachev, Reagan’s rhetoric empowered the hardliners in the USSR and thus postponed the collapse of communism. And that rhetoric led to the failed coup that brought Yeltsin to power and one of Yeltsin’s right hand men was Vladimir Putin.)
And Reagan brought war to the forefront of American foreign policy – he even invaded Grenada to get his poll numbers up. While Carter brought actual Christian decency to our foreign policy. And be brought lasting peace in the middle east, though he wasn’t finished and nobody continued his approach so we never fully fixed that problem.
So when history finally gets written, as long as it gets written by historians and not by military industrial complex billionaires, nor by the Heritage Foundation, Carter will go down in history as one of our best presidents and Reagan’s status will plummet.
thanks for the comment, mark. in its thoughtfulness and respect it’s a perfect complement to my post’s wistful foolery. ya elevate the place.