The country has probably learned some lessons from its mistake of electing Obama. But they will all be soon forgotten. The Jimmy Carter experience should have prevented Obama from being elected, but unfortunately we had to learn the painful national lessons all over again.
Too many young voters were not even a twinkle in their parents’ eye yet when Carter was in the WH. That’s part of the problem. Schools no longer teach history because it is meant to be forgotten. The younger generation likely was too busy partying to care about what’s really going on in gov’t (similar to today’s youth). So history can only repeat itself.
Its no longer about ‘learning lessons’.
Its about vested interests.
When 35.4% of the population depends upon value taken by force from their more industrious neighbors, their vote must reflect that self-interest.
http://www.census.gov/sipp/tables/quarterly-est/household-char/hsehld-char-11.html
(Table 2, 4th quarter, 2011)