JIMMY CARTER DECLARES U.S. 'DEMOCRACY' DEAD
America's 'worst damage' is it's now 'an oligarchy'
Cheryl Chumley
Former President Jimmy Carter, 91, who just revealed his liver cancer has spread to his brain, told an Oprah Winfrey “SuperSoul Sunday” audience America is now an oligarchy, and that’s having a dramatic effect on the country’s politically tied moral and ethical compasses.
We’ve become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy,” he said, the Daily Mail reported. “And I think that’s the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Carter also said if he were running for president in this current political atmosphere, there’d be no way he could afford it.
“There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being about to raise $200 or $300 million or more,” he said, during the interview which is due for broadcast soon. “I would not be inclined to do that and I would not be capable of doing it.”
Carter then went on to speak of the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.
“When you get to Washington, you’ve already alienated Democrats from Republicans, and Congress from the president, and red states and blue states,” he said, the Daily Mail said. “We never had any of that 25 or 30 years ago. I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.”
Carter, the 39th president, has made media headlines since his loss to Ronald Reagan in large part because he’s crossed an unwritten rule of the White House office and spoken publicly and in critical tones about a sitting president, namely George W. Bush.
In May 2007, Carter called Bush’s foreign relations policies “the worst in history,” various media reported.
As the Washington Post noted, Carter also said: “I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this [Bush] administration has been the worst in history. The overt reversal of America’s basic values as expressed by previous administrations … has been the most disturbing to me.”
He also told ABC News on “Good Morning America Weekend” in an interview given during Bush’s White House service he thought Donald Rumsfeld, then serving as secretary of Defense, ought to step down. In that same interview, he dinged the administration on the Iraq war.
“His administration,” he said then, of Bush, “and particularly the vice president and the secretary of defense have, I think, quite often deliberately misled the American people about the danger in Iraq to begin with, the causes for going to war in Iraq, and they have also misled the American people about what is happening in Iraq since we invaded.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/jimmy-carter-declares-u-s-democracy-dead/#9KXx8l115fu7TZgC.99My comments: A Nation that is in Overt Rebellion against God can do No Right! And that is where America is at this time.
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