On 1/9/21 2:38 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
We will be able to reverse Republican Reagnite laws and policies of the last 40 years .
Oh great. Who needs Marxism when your aim is indistinguishable from the DNC? Obama authorized putting the children of undocumented workers in cages, authorized drone strikes that wiped out wedding parties, and took our tax dollars to bail out banksters. He even said Reagan "put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it." Now he and his wife smooches it up with George W. Bush, who is responsible for the deaths of a million Iraqis.
Finally, these policies did not begin with Reagan. Jimmy Carter implemented neoliberal policies and his successor Reagan deepened them. Like Reagan, Carter exploited racist grievances as this article points out:
After an unsuccessful tilt at election to the office of Governor in 1966, Carter learned a valuable, if cynical lesson. The winner of that election was Lester Maddox, a segregationist who won on a race-baiting platform. Carter, we may generously assume, was repelled by Maddox’s views, but the campaign which followed showed that he was seduced by his methods. At the time, Georgia’s constitution forbade the Governor from succeeding himself, and so Carter took aim at the 1970 election, knowing Maddox would be vacating the office.
One of the main policies on which Carter campaigned for that election was opposition to desegregation busing. He courted Maddox in order to receive his endorsement and, upon receiving it, declared that “He has brought a standard of forthright expression and personal honesty to the governor’s office, and I hope to live up to his standard.” Carter attacked his opponent in the Democratic primaries, Carl Sanders, for paying tribute to the late Martin Luther King, and distributed photographs of Sanders in the company of two black baseball players who played for the Atlanta Braves[iv], a team part-owned by Sanders. Maddox, in contrast, had used his powers as governor to deny King the honour of lying in state at the Georgia Capitol. Maddox was to serve as Lieutenant Governor under Carter when he was elected. The Atlanta Constitution, the newspaper with the highest circulation in the state, described Carter as an “ignorant, racist, backward, ultra-conservative, red-necked South Georgia peanut farmer.”[v] The tactic worked, however, and having convinced the whites of Georgia that he was a segregationist, Carter was elected Governor.
full: https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/30/the-realpolitik-of-president-jimmy-carter/
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