According to the former president, Americans are now experiencing "a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors."

According to the former president, Americans are now experiencing “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.”

  • circuscritic
    -5•1 year ago

    Willingness to talk truth to power only matters if you’ve had no power. Not when you had all the power, choose to use it to advance the goals of elites and the powerful, and screw over an entire nation.

    Him regaining his “voice” now is worth nothing and people pretending otherwise is the same type of logic that allowed Dubya to be rehabilitated in the eye of public opinion.

    Yes, his Habit for Humanity has helped thousands. His role as president hurt hundreds of millions. How do you justify those scales as anywhere close to being balanced, much less even being worthy of note?

    • @almar_quigley
      5•1 year ago

      I’m sorry, what did he do that hurt hundreds of millions as president?

      • circuscritic
        -2•1 year ago

        The neo-liberal economic order started with Carter, he knocked over the first domino of deregulation and financializaton of the American political and economic systems.