“We’ve Become Now an Oligarchy Instead of a Democracy” - President Jimmy Carter
“We’ve Become Now an Oligarchy Instead of a Democracy” - President Jimmy Carter
I do love that the White House is required to keep the flags at half mast for thirty days- right through Trump’s inauguration.
Man are those pictures going to be poignant.
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What happens if they don't? Cause if a convicted felon doesn't go to jail for rape and fraud, guess what, the flag ain't gonna stop that POS.
Yeah, at this point I'd say rules have been pretty effectively tossed out the window.
Friendly reminder that in less than a month a felon rapist who incited an insurrection against our government and illegally attempted to overturn an election will be our leader and the most influential figure on the planet.
I'm not going to say America is done for in the next 4 years, but if this is where we're at, the downfall is inevitable on a long enough timeline.
Biden is still President on the day of Trump’s inauguration. I’m sure he’ll follow the rules.
What happened?
Jimmy Carter died on the 29th
I just want to step aside for a moment and point out this has no business being a GIF instead of a static image.
I just wanted to see if you could do that :( I’d never tried b4
So funny he says this as if it wasn't always that way. I can't tell if these people know the history of this country and are lying through their teeth or if they are genuinely just ignorant
Hey I mean I fully agree with the sentiment you present and I run a space called USAuthoritarianism about it :/
3rd option could be he realized most people bought the propaganda and he'd convince more people if he indicated it changed along the way. "We were a democracy but now we're not" is a shorter bridge to walk than "everything you've learned about the US isn't correct"
Ya fucking think?!
Reddit is full of Carter critics the last couple of days. I wonder how conspicuously silent they’ll be when Bush or Trump kicks the bucket.
The Russians will fly their flags at half-mast to honor their Orange US Sock Puppet.
Says a president who opposed a minimum wage increase AND increased spending on the social safety net.
Reminds me of the president who preached about the Military Industrial Complex after overseeing a historic expansion of the American nuclear arsenal.
Hypocrites.
Then why did he sign the bill raising the minimum wage in 1977?
One thing Carter was not, was a hypocrite. How good or bad a job he did as a president can certainly be argued about, but as a person he was honest and sincerely cared about the human rights of all people in the world. It may seem unbelievable today that we ever had a non-selfish president, but he was one.
sincerely cared about the human rights of all people in the world.
Unless you were in East Timor, or El Salvador, or Cambodia, or Palestine... etc. etc. etc.
The man was a hypocrite, but I'll give him this much, he knew it and at least tried to atone. Like every neoliberal, people just ignore his blood-soaked hands because he had a friendly persona.
Minimum Wage vote
I appreciate the correction. Sometimes I'm mistaken. It happens.
That’s certainly one way to look at it.
AND increased spending on the social safety net
You mean that thing real societies have because they're societies that take care of one another and not a bunch of disposable, capital battery rugged individuals competing against one another for oligarch scraps?
Man, for profit media is a hell of an Orwellian nightmare. Imagine being upset about being taxed so that if something catastrophic happens in your life you don't end up in a cardboard box under a freeway dying of exposure.
Fucking surreal. Why be society when we can be a bunch of temporarily embarrassed millionaires?
Tell this to the dipshits that just gleefully voted for oligarchy.
RIP President Carter. He's 100% correct and the red voters want the USA to become a version of China and/or Russia.