Despite Carter's come-to-Jesus lecturing he was defeated in the 1980 election by a Hollywood "B" movie actor, pitchman for General Electric and drugstore cowboy named Ronald Reagan. Undiagnosed at the time, Carter left the Liberal Class with a malignant tumor. It metastasized in the twenty-first century into the War on Terror.
Carter and his National Security Advisor, the great-game aficionado Zbigniew Brzezinski armed a band of terrorists in Afghanistan. Brzezinski later bragged that he and Carter egged the Soviet Union into a Vietnam-style war. Revenge seemed so sweet at the time. Instead the U.S. was later hoisted by its own petard into wars that would never end.
Carter's Afghan war lead to the destruction of that developing nation. Afghan women were launched back into the future of the 13th century, and the war killed over a million Afghan men, women and children. Carter's chickens hatched into the attacks on the U.S. of September 11, 2001. For over forty years Afghanistan has been a humanitarian disaster, because of a liberal president's meddling.
After 12 years in the wilderness of Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and Papa Bush, the Liberal Class thought that it had been sent another messiah by the name of William Jefferson Clinton. Ironically, Clinton was from Hope-- Hope, Arkansas. Hope was the Liberal Class's drug of choice. It kept looking for higher-highs, and instead got lower-lows.
Clinton was a New Democrat. What the New Democratic Coalition called being committed to pro-economic growth, pro-innovation, and fiscally responsible policies. In other words, Clinton was a neoliberal in sheep's clothing. It was even said that Clinton was the first black president, even though he was as white as sliced bread. [2]
Clinton slashed welfare for the poor, and flooded the prison population with African Americans. Clinton waxed eloquent about the middle class, and the Liberal Class stopped caring about the downtrodden. There was a Democrat in the White House, and the Liberal Class was loyal to the Democratic Party. Liberalism stopped caring about the problems that society created. As Senator Joe Biden said of his 1994 crime bill, "I don't care; LOCK THEM UP". The words "PREDATORS" and "THEM" were code for young Black American men.
In the 2019 Democratic presidential debates Senator Cory Booker called Joe Biden out:
"There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses, because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine." [3]
[Joe Biden Warns Of "Predators On Our Streets" Who Were "Beyond The Pale" In 1993 Crime Speech]
Biden's tough-on-crime speech was the most crude and racist speech made on the Senate floor in modern history. Southern racist senators Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell would have been proud. They were used to the Ku Klux Klan holding Blacks down. Now the police would do it.
LISTEN HERE to Senator Strom Thurman's racist 1957 24-hour talking filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. [4] The following quote was then enough to make the youthful Liberal Class's hair stand on end:
"There's not enough troops in the army, to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the 'n-word' race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches---"
In the 1990s liberalism forgot about the 1960's Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements. Clinton's "crime bills" were crimes against humanity. The laws broadened the death penalty to 60 more crimes, and three strikes mandated life-time sentences. Clinton financed building more prisons, and locking up millions of people, disproportionately Black and poor. Clinton and the Liberal Class ushered in the New Jim Crow. [5] [6]
Clinton signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), which hastened deindustrialization, and the loss of good-paying jobs for the working class. He deregulated Wall Street, which lead to the 2008 financial collapse of the banking industry and the Great Recession. That economic meltdown resulted in the loss of 8.5 million jobs, 3 million families being kicked out of their homes, and a massive transfer of wealth to the rich. It was the worst recession since the 1930's Great Depression.
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