• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    My dad really loved Carter, and designed and built a passive solar home that he hoped would be the blueprint for whole developments of them.

    Then Reagan got elected.

    Luckily he’s still got the plans somewhere.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I think Carter was one of the best presidents we’ve ever had in a lot of ways.

      Former military, submariner, without an ounce of warmonger in the dude. avoided conflict intelligently. did the best with a shit-sandwich of multiple world crisis landing. genuinely believed in his religion without ever forcing it on others. lived humbly. knew we were building the f117 and it’s existence basically negated a lot of the need for the b-1 (lol bone) (which had a host of other threats and problems dogging it) - and Reagan crucified him for the choice by pandering to the military industrial complex even after he was read-into the situation. Was scientifically literate enough to understand stealth changed the entire landscape of war.

      There’s a lot to love, the right just hates him because of bullshit.