Carter was a good president. The '70s were when the benefits of the Civil Rights Movement percolated into the mainstream. Some clothes were bad. A lot of stuff people like now was around in the '70s (although people seem to have brought back the worst stuff, IMO). PBS was still decent in the '70s. Consumer rights were much more guarded. Congress wasn't afraid to impeach a president who was a crook, etc. etc.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Spidra Webster - May 24, 2006 8:04:42 pm PDT #8873 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Pix - May 24, 2006 8:16:45 pm PDT #8874 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
And lots of us were born!
Scrappy - May 24, 2006 8:22:34 pm PDT #8875 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
And there were lots of great movies.
§ ita § - May 24, 2006 8:36:33 pm PDT #8876 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Lost finale is two hours! Dammit. I really wanted to be up to date on something. One of my co-kravvers is threatening to spoil me too.
Kettlebell.
Sleepy.
Sore.
Lee - May 24, 2006 8:38:42 pm PDT #8877 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I could spoil you, instead of the krav people!
Consuela - May 24, 2006 8:38:57 pm PDT #8878 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Earthquake. I think.
Consuela - May 24, 2006 8:40:09 pm PDT #8879 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
or, you know, maybe a big truck.
Lee - May 24, 2006 8:40:10 pm PDT #8880 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I didn't feel it.
Hey, Consuela, do you think you might join us on Saturday?
dcp - May 24, 2006 8:51:49 pm PDT #8881 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Typo Boy - May 24, 2006 9:06:57 pm PDT #8882 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Carter was a good president.
Or at least looks good compared to what follows. Carter is one of the great ex-presidents, and those who came after were far worse -but I could make an arguement that he was the waymaker for a lot of went after. He was the first Democratic President who accepted the "government bad, private good" trope. Even though he made lots of exceptions he helped make the meme respectable for all the really horrible people who used if after him. Also on alternative energy - he was the guy who pushed many times the funds for synfuels as for renewables.
One thing wasn't his fault but helped create what came after. He was elected as a centrist Democrat; he was a centrist Democrat. But as soon as he was elected he was portrayed as an ultra-liberal. And some of the right spectrum " in the Democratic party loved and accepted this, defining Carter as an ultra-liberal made them moderates. And eventually Reagan was able to become president, because if Carter was an ultra-liberal, then Reagan mere conservative - not a right wing nut case. In fact a whole spectrum of opinions that had been considered loony became define as merely conservative; and that process of defining the center rightward has continued to this day - which is part of how we got into this mess.