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• Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:35 PM

  LeCastor

  First off, Carter is why you still have an east coast. 3 Mile Island, without Carter, well America would have a much harder time not being, you know, a toxic wasteland.

  Further, his chief critics like to point to the oil crisis, that was precipitated by the very Republican Ford, and the Iranian hostage crisis, which had a lot of hay made over it by the very Republican Reagan, who then went on to sell guns to Iran.

  And that is not even getting into Reagan being a firm supporter of Apartheid, or Bush Snr declaring around 8% of America's population neither real citizens nor patriots.

  Yeah. Terrible president that Carter.

  But I digress.

  You are trying to preach the politics of despair. Every one of them, is a politician and therefore cannot be trusted, but what use is this? Really, what use is it?

  Say one accepts your theory that they are all rotten lying politicians, does that do anything about the deficit? How about healthcare, does it give healthcare to sick kids? Education? Security?

  What does blinding yourself with a wallowing sense of cynicism really gain you?

  Because if every leader is just another politician how the hell do you expect to organise anything to actually fix the problems you have right now?

  The politics of despair are very tempting, particularly to a generation raised on "Greed is good" and everyone one wearing black in order to "Assert their individuality."

  But to anybody wanting to actually solve anything, there is one hell of a lot more to be said for hope.

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