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3. Our Jimmy CARTER swung us away from JFK's clarity on the Separation
Sat Jul 7, 2018, 07:04 PM
Jul 2018

It was the '70s, the post-Hippie freedom to dip into any mental fad - Jesus Freaks, scientology, Eastern religion, Carlos CASTANEDA, pop psychology, et al.

So it didn't seem that freaky for the PotUS to carry his Bible around and teach Sunday School. Seemed even sort of normal, or more like *familiar*, compared to all the nuttiness around. I'm not at all saying that CARTER governmentally institutionalized de-Separation, but he put it smack "in the air." Gone was JFK's clear distinction of Separation, and CARTER's homey (Populist?) practice was non-threatening, barely a hint of the potential impact.

CARTER, good man, has a lot we got stuck with: He paved the way for RAYGUN; had a nest of vipers (Pat CADDELL, co-founder of the Carlyle Group RUBENSTEIN; Tweety); was a (proto-Populist? - the religion thing; anti-"elites"/KENNEDYs) that SHITLER now takes as a mold without the inside heart.





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