The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(01-28-2020, 07:23 PM)Marypoza Wrote: -- l would argue progressive from Roosevelt 2 Jimmy Carter. Jimmy was the last old school dem Prez.  lnterestingly he backs Bernie, who despite calling himself a democratic socialist is really an old school dem, like from back in the 60s & 70s

In philosophy, you could definitely place Carter with the old school Democrats.  In tone, the mood had already shifted.  The Unraveling had already started.  Things like the oil crisis, hostage crisis and national malaise had already begun to hurt the feeling that America could do anything.  It couldn't.

Crises are often preceded by bad presidents that are really indicating how the old values have failed.  You had Hoover before FDR and Buchanan before Lincoln.  Carter almost feels like that too.  What he did just failed, built a sour taste, grew into the lesser version of America that was Reagan.

Nixon had Watergate and the Fall of Saigon.  It seems his election began the train wreck which was the unravelling.  Carter tried to pull us out of it.  Unfortunately he couldn't.

There seems always to be an argument about just where to put turning boundaries and similar events.  Anywhere you put your finger, there are always people with decent argument who will put a finger somewhere else.