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Jimmy Carter was no friend of union workers like me (jacobin.com)

submitted 3 days ago by DougHolland to c/aiop

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... My labor friends like to comment today that “it all started with Reagan.” As if a switch had been thrown and a cascade of awful things was suddenly unleashed on us. No so fast. For me, a young blue-collar worker, the hellish years of Reagan started when Carter was elected. No doubt Jimmy Carter inherited a titanic mess; the 1970s were years when the many sins of the past were catching up with the United States. But Carter raised hopes and expectations that the unemployment and inflation crises would be confronted and working people would not be the victims. Instead, we all found out that Carter was the original “New Democrat,” long before we knew what that meant. It meant a Southern, conservative Democrat not beholden to “big labor” and “liberals.” ...

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[–] Botzo 5 points 3 days ago

That's a reasonable take. I might have had a bit of a knee-jerk to the "democrats abandoned the hard-working white guy" bit. The other editorial I read from them did better in its take on the legacy, if still shying away from any call to action.

I do still stand by my criticism of this dude's reflection. The "My one little vote didn't matter anyway" bullshit is the same garbage that continually shifts the Overton window.