Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”

I still don’t understand how lobbying is legal. Like, it’s straight up bribery.

We didn’t deserve Carter. We still don’t. He’s a better category of human than nearly all of the politicians we have at the moment.

Its extremely obvious. "Oh, these? These aren't bribes. They're uh, free speech! Yeah! And companies speak in money so this is their free-"
Shut the fuck up.

clearly he's old enough to run again.

Man. The guy can grow peanuts, build thousands of houses, kick cancer's ass, and is brilliantly insightful.

No wonder he lost reelection. He's competent. I'm kinda shocked he won in the first place. We didn't deserve him, and we still don't.

Thank you, Mr. Last Good American President very likely ever.

We never deserved to be led by this man. We'd rather be lied to by actors.

I agree with what is being said in the article. However, I have seen an uptick of articles older than 2 years being posted as "recent news" or "breaking news". This article is from 2015 and while it is pretty accurate, especially in these times, something from 8 years ago should be noted as such.

I mean he's right.

This is end stage capitalism, it's functioning as intended.

Carter put solar panels on the White House roof. Reagan took them off because he was beholden to the fossil fuel industry. And now look at the planet.

Yeah he helped create it. The first US president to begin to embrace neoliberal ideology and fictitious capital. Set the path for Ronald Reagan to bring in neoliberalism proper. And armed the Mujahideen, which lead to the crisis in Afghanistan. This is equivalent to Eisenhower warning everyone about the military industrial complex.

It’s insane to think this guy, who was a pastor, lost the Christian vote to the cheating twice divorced Reagan

We know.

Oligarchy is baked into the U.S. constitution. Only rich (land-owning) White Males had any say. The Senate (mostly wealthy) has a permanent veto over any real power sharing. Oligarchy is nothing new in the USA, they have just added window dressing to make people THINK it ever was a democracy.

It's an oligarchy? Always has been

Jimmy Carter is a fucking legend

And yet people will still get upset at you, if you express any viewpoint not in line with a party line. Guess the oligarchs are winning.

It's sad that they only say the truth after they are far removed from power.

Looking at Russia, I can approximate that in next 20 years more yong people will participate in politics and get elected.

true OG

He was the one who ushered in the age of neoliberalism and set the stage for Reagan.

Too bad this guy wasn't in a position to do anything about that back when that started happening.

That was sarcasm

This will fall on deaf ears on lemmy where the vast majority is pro war, pro oligarchy, pro state, pro corporation. Then they wear progressive ideas as an accessory like clothing that they discard at the end of the day. They love state enforcement of experimental injections, war, and authoritarianism.

Yeah, that's true. I also remember a time when the CIA was doing their dirty work down in South America while Jimmy Carter was in office. Dude isn't as great as everybody thinks he is