Jimmy Carter : The Most [Unfairly] Hated President of the United States

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

Jimmy Carter was the best person the states have had as president in the last fifty years at least.

Then we go and vote Ronald Reagan in after.

What’s with Republicans and voting for celebrities?

[-] Digital_man@lemmy.one 21 points 5 months ago

They like to be spoken AT, not spoken WITH?

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[-] dudinax@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

50 years? The presidents before him were Ford, Nixon and LBJ, so going back to Eisenhower at the least.

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

He was a good human being, but I don't think anyone would call him a good president.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

What was wrong with what he did?

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca -3 points 5 months ago

I don't recall the details, but the economy wasn't doing great and I don't think anything he did helped. Inflation was really bad.

I'm sure he did good things, but I think that's what he's remembered for - that and the whole Iran hostage crisis thing.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I never heard about him taking hostages.

[-] Drusas@kbin.run 24 points 5 months ago

People hate Jimmy Carter?

[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

My dad does and I've never been able to get him to give me an actual reason why. Like most of his shitty opinions

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Fucktards, yeah.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He was beat by one of the most popular presidents of all time. Hindsight being what it is, he was beat by one of the most destructive presidents of all time.

[-] isles@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Sure are a lot of Reagan defenders around here.

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[+] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[-] pregnantwithrage@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's interesting because it was after my time but hindsight kind of showed he was right in principal but wasn't a great statesman and couldn't do the political calculations behind the scenes to rally his own party much less unit both sides.

I vaguely know about Ollie North and how the hostage situation before his second election run sabotaged his campaign but that seems to be more a nail in the coffin rather than the only reason for his failure.

[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

How do you think Jimmy carter failed to address these issues policy wise?

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[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

There’s some legitimate reasons to not like him still tho.

[-] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

"He's history's greatest monster!"

Said the Simpsons, sarcastically.

[+] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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