MerryJaneDoe

Yeah...I forgot what the original statement was. But I just spent the last hour in an internet rabbit hole, reading about Carter's administration. Was fun, love ya, thanks for coming to the show.

I'll try to do better next time.

Um, no. I expected that one of two things would happen:

1. A knowledge expert would come by and offer more detail and/or correction

2. Nobody would care

Apparently, I should have prepared myself to be publicly shamed for trying to add to the conversation. Perhaps you missed the part where I said "...but this seems about right", and then offered my own analysis. My personal thoughts about the presidential administration that I fucking lived through, of articles I read in real time from a newspaper that was dropped at my door every fucking morning. You want me to source the Kansas City Star from 1976 -1980? Or my civics class in high school? Ted Brokaw? Dan Rather?

To you, Carter is ancient history. To me, he is a vivid living memory. I was a student during his administration; I remember his policies. His picture was hung in more than one classroom.

Liberals generally reacted to Jimmy Carter's stance on South Africa with disappointment and frustration, finding that his administration's practical policies did not match its strong anti-apartheid rhetoric. While praising his human rights-centered approach and his moral opposition to apartheid, many liberal activists, African American leaders, and progressive Democrats criticized his reluctance to implement severe economic sanctions, preferring "constructive engagement" to promote gradual change.

From Google, so probably not 100% accurate, but this seems about right.

I won't use the term "far-left", but there is and has always been an outspoken, powerful minority among progressives that makes a LOT of noise about not compromising. At all. On any issue. The right suffers this phenomenon, too, but right-leaning voters don't seem to split their votes quite as noticeably as the left.

It was easy to lose faith in Carter, though, because his presidency was plagued at every turn. The energy crisis was frustrating to many Americans, as was the insane inflation. Carter had a tiger by the tail from Day One in office, and he never got it under control.

Lifted from The Usual Suspects.

The actual quote is by French poet Charles Baudelaire: "The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist"

"Hello human billionaire friend. I too would like to harvest unlimited data directly from the government agencies."