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bliss-bliss-bliss-bliss:

fanboy-feminist:

There is something really, uh, telling, about how Jimmy Carter’s presidency was widely considered to be a “failure,” and he also is INARGUABLY the U.S. president who has done the most to promote human rights around the world.

It’s extremely telling, about the U.S. nation-state as a political project and institution, about the federal government as a structure, about the nature of imperialism.

To reference a friend of mine, he was the only U.S. President alive in our lifetime who could avoid the International Criminal Court.

RIP Jimmy Carter, Oct 1, 1924 – Dec 29, 2024

• He pardoned all Vietnam War draft dodgers on his second day in office
• He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology
• He pushed through the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks – and you may never have heard of any of those things, but trust me, each one of them was a huge fucking deal
• Even though he was staunchly Christian his whole life, he left his Southern Baptist Church when they decided to no longer allow women to be pastors
• And then fought tirelessly against the suppression of reports on sex offenders in the church
• He established the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Education
• He established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights and he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002
• He traveled all over the world to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and further the eradication of infectious diseases
• He helped found Habitat for Humanity and continued to do hands-on work building houses for people into his fucking late 90s
• He may very well be the only president, or even the only politician, who never cheated on his wife even once
• He said he’d rather be dead than see a second Trump presidency and he fucking meant it

Books that Jimmy Carter wrote in his post-presidential years include:

A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power a book by Jimmy Carter

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work a book by Jimmy Carter

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid a book by Jimmy Carter

Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope a book by Jimmy Carter

Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis a book by Jimmy Carter

He was a true good one, the likes of which we will never have again (and it makes it even worse that he was replaced by Ronald Reagan, source of so much that is wrong in modern America). Rest in peace, sir.