Where Have You Gone Jimmy Carter?
I would like to congratulate President Carter on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I've always felt that we lost something when we lost him as president. Since he left office, government debt has spiralled out of control, the gap between rich and poor has become a chasm, the world has become a far more dangerous and frightening place (despite the end of the Cold War), and we as a nation have lost whatever sense of innocence and decency we once had. When consumer debt first became an issue, he urged Americans to cut up their credit cards, for which he was derided. Subsequent presidents have relied on the often disastrous accumulation of personal debt to drive an increasingly overheated and teetering economy.
The conventional wisdom that I've heard is that President Carter was too wise and decent to govern effectively. What does it say about us that we can only be effectively governed by corrupt and indecent men? Every president since Carter has had something seriously wrong with them morally, spiritually, and/or intellectually. We've had the cynical Millennialist simpleton of Reagan, the void of the Bushes, and the deeply flawed southern preacher/policy wonk of Clinton. What have we gotten in return for our deal with the devil of amoral politics?
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