Why is Jimmy Carter so disliked amongst boomers?

Why is Jimmy Carter so disliked amongst boomers?

Is it because he repilled Americans way too hard way too fast about materialism? Think about the balls it takes to say this on live TV:

>In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

I can't imagine a US president these days saying anything similar.

youtube.com/watch?v=1IlRVy7oZ58

The seventies were a terrible decade for Americans. The sixties are said to be the decade that truly destroyed American values and was the baby-boomer playground where no one took anything seriously anymore, but during the 60s America was arguably at the peak of its success as far as how large the middle-class and industrial strength goes. It also passed a lot of civil rights legislation that had to come sooner or later, and the ratio of pay from the lowest employees in a company to the highest level of employees was exponentially smaller than today.

I really don't like hippies as in burnt out shoeless bums swaying to the grateful dead on LSD, but the changing of some social norms was simply a response to the advancement of a peaceful and prosperous society post ww2.
Then in the seventies, the loss of gold standard, cheap merch from red Chinese, the height of the war in southeast Asia, and a newly degraded standard of living really fucked things up. Drugs like coke and heroin were on the rise as opposed to traditional alcohol and pot prominence. The hippie and disco movements were highly commercialized as television improved, major cities became slums, and industry was dying out nation wide. Vietnam ends, big political blunder. Genuine social movements for citizens rights and freedoms died out, the CIA killed public moral with a KGB tier phone tapping and mail opening operation against US citizens without warrants, (yes, America used to take huge pride in the 4th amendment once upon a time) and Vietnam vets coming home all they can see is blood and terror, nobody around them could care one bit. They become drunks, bikers, gangsters, addicts (1/3 of US personell in Vietnam became addicted to the cheap and abundant heroin in country to try to cope with their horrible experiences). Family values, black slums, and single motherhood skyrocketed. Everything in life was designed as a distraction from the shocking social decay. Need I go on?

Reagan made it worse though. .

Operation Eagle claw is the answer.

>tldr it's all Charlie Beckwiths fault.

Coke and Heroin were more prominent prior to the 60's. Their use didn't increase, just police response to it.

>Need I go on?
Yes

Stop using the internet.

It's death spiral currently. Trump will 100% start a war with Iran or North Korea, probably both, and plunge the country into bankruptcy

Because American identity back then was "we wuz the kangz of the world" and anything that put the Americans in reality check was considered taboo. I'm glad he broke the mold publicly.

US doesn't control the oils, this is what happened.

A good, honest man who is an inspiration even after leaving office.
Of course the boomers hate him.

what did he say?

most convincing anti-Carter argument i've heard was that the grain embargo fucked american farming, which was a major issue in the 80s.
nevertheless, he appointed Volcker so he cant be that bad.

>What is America future

That's not true. All these drugs have been around for well over a century and always been in use, but the vast majority of drug users (as always) seek out pot and booze. You're correct that especially in the later seventies the DEA and Law Enforcement began to focus primarily on cocaine due to the fucking ridiculous amount of American cash flowing south in a new narco-economy that was totally unprecedented. A kilo of coke coming from Colombians, Bolivians, etc, to America including production & shipping $1000-$5000. Sold in Miami, 30-40k. New York, 50-60k. Europe, up to 80k US dollars.

Marijuana has always been popular and lucrative, but coke was costing the treasury losses of billions in cash each year, in 70s-80s dollars. Heroin was something you'd only find in dank shooting galleries, projects, and slums. It sure as hell wasn't like coke or pot where you go to the bathroom in a popular club and snort coke or smoke weed. It was primarily a drug for the desperate and the down and out. Vets, bums, slum dwellers, etc. Now today coke is on the back burner, weed is increasingly legal or decriminalized, and heroin is the greatest epidemic of our time. Meth has gained popularity as well, but no one in 1978 would've thought heroin would be the drug of choice for middle class whites and higher income earners by 2012 or so.

I hit the character limit. The 70s was basically the decade in which America's society started to unravel. Better entertainment technology from movies to records to tv helped to cause a consumption based lifestyle with new ad capabilities and the phenomena of merchandising for entertainment. Aside from the serious economic and governmental policy issues I mentioned earlier, the kids weren't just smoking pot in a garage and staring at the sky or a lava lamp anymore. They were pushed out of the experimental and idealistic counter culture and into a highly monetized youth culture now fully coopted by financial interests that was all about having the best clothes, shoes, car, and appliances. This is just the kids turning from idealists into customers. The oil embargo, Iranian revolution and hostages, failed rescue, war on drugs escalating exponentially without making a dent in drug trafficking. It was just the end of the glory days in America from the end of ww2 to 1969. Carter wasn't popular after a few policy blunders, but he saw what had happened.
I somewhat agree in the sense that US standard of living has dropped steadily since the late sixties in about every facet.

Every president since Nixon has been considerably worse than the previous one.

thanks

yes, that is what happens when other countries' economies get on track.

>repilled
Also…
>Gets humiliated in Arab oil crisis, decides to respond by getting on national tv and bitching to the American people that all of this was their own fault to deflect the fact that he got bullied
>Funds genocide in East Timor
>Operation Eagle Claw
>Tells Americans that their fears of soviet expansion are unfounded, right before the soviets invaded Afghanistan
>Pardoned G. Gordon Liddy and the guy who tried to kill Truman

>other countries can't have foreign policies of their own.

he unintentionally brought down the Shah.

he made a public statement where he did not express confidence in him, and the Shah collapsed. he then publicly supported the Shah every day, but it was too late.

He tried to make 'Merifats convert to the metric system.

Simple as that. Literally Americans chimped out over bring asked to abandon their retarded measuring system.

materialism? like marxism?

>Trump will 100% start a war with Iran or North Korea, probably both, and plunge the country into bankruptcy

And he gave up the Panama Canal, the fucking dolt.

Pants on head retarded foreign policy coupled with domestic troubles spoiled his reputation. I think the consensus generally goes that he wasn't a bad or stupid man by any means, just unfit to be President.

Also, he campaign pledged to uncover all the CIA's files on UFOs and because he didn't in office all the conspiratards are eternally salted at him.