2) The failed Iran hostage rescue mission, and the fact that Carter didn't just threaten to bomb the Iranians into the stone age if they didn't give them up
3) Reagan with his acting chops kicked the level of political bullshitting up to a new much higher level, and Carter wasn't prepared with a counter
4) People decided they liked folksy better than wonky in a president
5) Like you say, he didn't project strength, he had a weak-whiney-lefty streak in him that showed from time to time
Funny how male feminists like you talk about emasculation. Your feminist pals in Congress made sure there is far more funding for breast cancer than prostate cancer.
Contrary to the spirit (if not the specifics) of your comment, the reality is that as I've written and said many times, the men's health movement -- of which I am a part and have been for decades -- is a direct outgrowth of feminism. Both ideologically and practically speaking. I am going to be writing more about this in the near future.
Thank you for the reply. That is commendable that you are part of the ,men's health movement. But I have to respectfully question how feminism facilitated that. When the Congressional Women's Caucus was trying to pass the Women's Health Act in the early 1990s, they deceived their colleagues by stating that women's health "only" received 15% of the NIH budget. They left out the part that that 15% was already twice the amount being spent on male health.
As things stand now, what began as one Office of Women's Health has become ten such offices, and still there is nothing for men's health.
The new Republican administration may be more sympathetic to male issues than past Democratic administrations. At this time last year, Biden gave $100.000.000 to a White House Initiative for Women's Health Research, and zero dollars for men's health.
I have contacted Congressman Troy Carter, who heads the Congressional Men's Health Caucus, to get with President Trump, and ask him to do for men's health what Biden did for women's health. I encourage you and every other man to do the same. Thank you.
Excellent Piece - The Archetypal energy that Susan Jeffords wrote about is as relevant today as it was then. Carter was the Mature Masculine/Elder/Sage. He was authentic and congruent, in other words, President Carter was both the Man and the Man behind the curtain. The marketing or propaganda politics of the Post Modern Era sells us the Persona, the Person we want to see and tells us, pay no attention to that man/boy behind the curtain. This gives us the trickster/magician, not the Mature Masculine/Feminine energy present in mature sage/elder energy which is rarely seen in Post-Modern politics. Reagan was an actor who just became the persona of the king/father, no access to the authentic human behind the curtain. Trump is the shape shifter trickster, who plays off fear and resentment for personal gain. The man behind the curtain for Trump, doesn't exist, just a hurt boy who has never grown-up/matured with a strong need to over compensate. Most political dictators (Traumatic Narcissists)have a similar personality traits and a hurt child buried in the Psyche.
Eh, Carter failed for 5 reasons:
1) The economy soured during his term
2) The failed Iran hostage rescue mission, and the fact that Carter didn't just threaten to bomb the Iranians into the stone age if they didn't give them up
3) Reagan with his acting chops kicked the level of political bullshitting up to a new much higher level, and Carter wasn't prepared with a counter
4) People decided they liked folksy better than wonky in a president
5) Like you say, he didn't project strength, he had a weak-whiney-lefty streak in him that showed from time to time
Funny how male feminists like you talk about emasculation. Your feminist pals in Congress made sure there is far more funding for breast cancer than prostate cancer.
Contrary to the spirit (if not the specifics) of your comment, the reality is that as I've written and said many times, the men's health movement -- of which I am a part and have been for decades -- is a direct outgrowth of feminism. Both ideologically and practically speaking. I am going to be writing more about this in the near future.
Thank you for the reply. That is commendable that you are part of the ,men's health movement. But I have to respectfully question how feminism facilitated that. When the Congressional Women's Caucus was trying to pass the Women's Health Act in the early 1990s, they deceived their colleagues by stating that women's health "only" received 15% of the NIH budget. They left out the part that that 15% was already twice the amount being spent on male health.
As things stand now, what began as one Office of Women's Health has become ten such offices, and still there is nothing for men's health.
The new Republican administration may be more sympathetic to male issues than past Democratic administrations. At this time last year, Biden gave $100.000.000 to a White House Initiative for Women's Health Research, and zero dollars for men's health.
I have contacted Congressman Troy Carter, who heads the Congressional Men's Health Caucus, to get with President Trump, and ask him to do for men's health what Biden did for women's health. I encourage you and every other man to do the same. Thank you.
Excellent Piece - The Archetypal energy that Susan Jeffords wrote about is as relevant today as it was then. Carter was the Mature Masculine/Elder/Sage. He was authentic and congruent, in other words, President Carter was both the Man and the Man behind the curtain. The marketing or propaganda politics of the Post Modern Era sells us the Persona, the Person we want to see and tells us, pay no attention to that man/boy behind the curtain. This gives us the trickster/magician, not the Mature Masculine/Feminine energy present in mature sage/elder energy which is rarely seen in Post-Modern politics. Reagan was an actor who just became the persona of the king/father, no access to the authentic human behind the curtain. Trump is the shape shifter trickster, who plays off fear and resentment for personal gain. The man behind the curtain for Trump, doesn't exist, just a hurt boy who has never grown-up/matured with a strong need to over compensate. Most political dictators (Traumatic Narcissists)have a similar personality traits and a hurt child buried in the Psyche.