I’m probably a little younger than you, but not by much. I haven’t served in the military, so thank you for your service. I didn’t vote for Carter the first time, or the second. Actually, I voted for John B. Anderson, as he was my congressman.
But at the time, I didn’t know liberal from conservative from a hole in the ground. Anderson would’ve been a big disaster.
Carter was better than Clinton, Obama, and definitely better than Biden, but not by much.
They’ve ALL been big disasters. I’ve voted Republican, even when I had to hold my nose to do it.
I hope the republicans can get their act together, because I’m ready to declare as an independent- they’ve become the RINO party, it seems.
I can see you and I view Carter in much the same light.
Boy, that was a blast from the past, John B. Anderson. I hadn’t thought of that person in a long time, but...I had a picture form in my head, so I had to look up the name...yep. My brain stored that image of him fairly accurately.
Funny, when we realize we get somewhat politically aware. I became aware when Goldwater ran against LBJ. I was only seven, but I remember it somewhat. I had strong political feelings when Nixon ran against Humphrey, and I was all in on Nixon.
I was an independent for a long time, but you and I are not the kind of independent that the term “Independent” brings to mind for me.
I have no respect for those kind of “Independents” of which you are not one. (You are what I view as an ideological independent, someone who rejects the functioning of both parties.)
The people I hear of as “Independents” are people who are not ideological independents, but people who have forsaken cognition on issues by sacrificing that necessity to think on the ideological altar of trying to be “evenhanded” and “openminded” about things. It is an odd form of virtue signaling.
I have utter contempt for those people. Those people are divorced from reality because they refuse to think about it.