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REST IN PEACE MR. PRESIDENT: Jimmy Carter vs. The Dirty Tricks and War Machines

Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
5 min readDec 29, 2024

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. Jimmy Carter

It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus. Jimmy Carter

Why Republicans play dirty? They fear that if they stick to the rules, they will lose everything. Their behavior is a threat to democratic stability. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. Jimmy Carter

As former President, Jimmy Carter, shuffles off this mortal coil, we should recognize that he might be the last truly decent person to ever serve as our supreme leader. More importantly, we should acknowledge that he was undermined at every turn by sinister forces in our society. In at-least one situation Carters political enemies engaged in activities which our laws clearly designate as tantamount to treason. Oddly enough, within days of Jimmy entering home Hospice, a Republican operative from Texas revealed that back in 1980, Reagan supporters secretly traveled to the Middle East to seal a deal that would keep…

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Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Written by Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Top Economics Writer, Gov. service, corp consulting, & faculty posts (e.g., Mich., Stanford, British Columbia). Piles of scholarly pubs & occasional diatribes.

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