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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, let's try voting for candidates who were born AFTER the Battle of the Bulge next time. None of the incumbents take their jobs seriously and they are way too comfortable in their phoney-baloney jobs.

We haven't had an actual progressive President since Jimmy Carter and that was fifty YEARS ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Carter was a conservative in most ways. He was the first neoliberal to win office and many of the policy agendas that he set both parties continue to pursue

https://time.com/6338234/jimmy-carter-conservative-president/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Yep, Noam Chomsky calls Nixon the last liberal president and he’s right. Carter was only at the beginning of the post New Deal reforms, so he wasn’t a full on demon like later traitors, but his record is clear.