I thought Carter was a great president till I started reading about political things maybe 7 or 8 years ago. I thought Reagan must be the most evil man alive till the same time.
Now I think Carter was a bad president all the way around, not just in domestic things but in the way he dealt with the world, our enemies and our military. I also have come to the conclusion since he left office and started his strange love for dictators that he was then and is now anti Jewish.
Amusingly, I didn't realize this until I did some research into the history of automobiles. I know that sounds like an odd place to realize the dangers of bad policy.... but I just happen to be looking through the development of cars during my automotive technology studies in college, when I noticed there was this massive gap in innovation that happened in the early 80s.
It was almost like everyone everywhere just canceled all real development, and for a near 10 year period, produced nothing but absolute crap. Although I didn't have this at the time, I got a book of America's Greatest Cars, which ironically, illustrates this perfectly. The book is divided up into 10 year periods.
Up until the 1970s, there are dozens on dozens of cars listed for each decade. The decade of 1960 to 1969 is 88 cars. Not one is a duplicate. The decade of 1980 to 1989 is 10 cars, two were Mustangs, one was the 88 Thunder bird, and amusingly the 83 Cavalier.
From the 70s, went from Olds F85 Rallyes, Plymouth Road Runners, Hemi Cudas and Superbirds, Dodge Chargers and Demons, Ford Mach 1 and Mercury Cougars...
To a Cavalier, a Mustang listed twice (something not done in any other time frame), and the most plain looking Thunderbird to ever exist. Again, I asked the most basic question... why?
The answer is Carter. He passed massive pollution and fuel mileage requirements, as well as styling restrictions. No more fins, no pointed hoods. More controls on exactly where lights have to be, and how many there can be. Endless controls and restrictions hit our domestic auto industry very hard. And they produced junk.
Interestingly, the worst one hit, was the one that got a Federal bailout, and produced the K-car. Not one single car from Chrysler was listed as America's greatest for the 1980s. I wonder if we'll see a repeat of that with GM.
So that's how I started looking at Carters record. I ask, how could he have gotten all this support to pass all these horrible industry destroying regulations? Answer, the invented 'energy crisis'. Carter knowingly passed price caps on oil, specifically to cause the crisis he used to pass all this legislation.
Then I looked at all the other crap he did, and clearly he truly is the worst American president of all time, unless Obama unseats him... which he's working on it big time.
