Potemkin prosperity

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sun Sep 30 13:13:55 PDT 2001


Aren't there 2 carter administrations. For the most part, his human rights policy in South America was not bad. I met quite a few radicals who felt that Carter's policy saved their lives.

Then, the Iranian hostages and he moved sharply to the right in foreign policy.

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 06:47:09PM +0000, Carl Remick wrote:
> >From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> >
> >Carl Remick wrote:
> > >
> > > In every way from at least Reagan onward, the US has truly been a fool's
> > > paradise.
> > >
> >
> >Starting things with Reagan both distorts history and contributes to the
> >continuing status of the DP as a major barrier to the formation of mass
> >movements on the left.
> >
> >Carter began airline deregulation (etc).
>
> Please note that I said "from *at least* Reagan onward" and would never
> argue that Carter or anyone earlier represented some prelapsarian paradise.
> But I think of the Carter years as being the last time there was any
> willingness at all to acknowledge that US society is Fundamentally Fucked
> Up. Contrast Carter's "national malaise" speech (which, admittedly,
> contributed to his getting the old heave-ho from office) with Reagan's
> fatuous "morning in America" palaver.
>
> Carl
>
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