>The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our Nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.
>"Aww shucks, doesn't it suck how the social fabric of our nation is dissolving and losing its soul?">*instigates the neoliberal turn*
Easily solved as Golemerica found its true calling: servitude to Israel :^)
>>18465830>Reaganites think that he failed>Not because he ruined the economy or cemented the toxic relationship with Israel but because he failed to cut welfare spending for more military aid
>>18465817Michael Moore's retarded film convinced a bunch of people that everything was going well under Carter and that his little speech "warning about consumerism" is the only reason people voted Reagan. In reality Carter already had some of the lowest approval ratings in the post-war era before he ever made his stupid speech.
>>18465817>>18466113Carter made that speech on July 15, 1979. Gallup already polled his approval ratings at 29% on June 4. Carter lost to Reagan because he was a shit President, not because of any warning he gave to anyone.
Nobody really liked Carter, even during the 76 general election most believed he was a potato. That he won was kind of a fluke, really. He also had no connections or friends in Washington, nor did he really try to make any.
I've noticed that most of his criticism was just American arrogance seething when it's obvious they can't actually control the entire world.
>>18466396>just American arroganceThere's being humble and reasonable, and then there's being such a pushover that you bend over to panama
>Tear up your credit cards and quit spending>Sure thing, Mr. Prez>economy instantly collapses into the worst downturn since the Depression
>>18465817He lost in 1980 due to a combination of vile Reaganite collaboration with Islamist terrorists and the culmination of 30 years of unbridled American prosperity turning the people soft and arrogant, unwilling to give up luxuries for the fate of the nation. Same reason why people are allowing Trump to let gas get up to $4/gal without saying a word instead of doing the proper route of rioting in the streets. We are unwilling as a nation to do anything but become paypigs for corporations nowadays. Mark my words, gas is never going below $4/gal for 87 octane ever again - we did this to ourselves through a crisis of passivity.Carter would be turning in his grave, all he said has come to pass.
>>18467373Seems a bit incoherent to say that americans are soft and unwilling to sacrifice luxuries and then have a bitch and moan because americans aren't rioting in the streets over $4/gal gas
>>18467373Trump is not /his/. Sorry.>>>/pol/
>>18467393I mean that we are unwilling to sacrifice things. A revolution to create a world that is equitable for all would likely mean more hardship than being a consumerist paypig just like what Carter was warning about, and so we choose the latter because we are a weak people.>>18467396The post isn't about Trump, the post is about Carter's prediction (meets /his/ >25 yr rule) coming true
>>18467373>30 years of unbridled American prosperity turning the people soft and arrogant, unwilling to give up luxuries for the fate of the nationAre we really back to the "treats" discourse from 2022? Stagflation and energy crisis hit people's lives at their most basic, especially the working class. Carter sucked.
