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Say what you will about Carter, he kept the Strait of Hormuz open through his strength. He governed well. It was inflation that did him in, not his governance.
by epistasis 5mo ago
Say what you will about Carter, he kept the Strait of Hormuz open through his strength. He governed well. It was inflation that did him in, not his governance.
Trump maganed to hand the Stair of Hormuz over to Iran, and instigate massive inflation personally. The US is laughed at or ignored or treated as a problem on the world stage now, rather than being the leader.
However, the more sociopathic in society see Trump as strong, for some weird reason, and Carter as weak, for some weird reason. Very strange.
- UncleOxidant 5mo ago> It was inflation that did him in, not his governance And that was mostly hanging around from earlier oil shocks and the spending on Vietnam. He did the right thing by choosing Paul Volker to be Fed chair. In Carter's interview of Volker he asked what he would do to bring down inflation. Volker replied that he would significantly raise interest rates. Volker figured that he didn't get the job based on this honest response and was surprised when Carter picked him.
- idiotsecant 5mo agoI don't think the people who see trump as strong are sociopaths. They are people who desperately need the structure of heirarchy. They are as comfortable at the bottom as they would be at the top, so long as there is someone below them. The heirarchy is only valid so long as the people above them are good and strong and the people beneath them are contemptible and weak. The very highest member of the heirarchy being weak throws the whole thing into doubt, and must be avoided at all costs. The leader is strong and wise and we must ensure that everyone else thinks so. The sociopaths (at least the high functioning ones) are simply doing what they can to climb the ladder.