The 1970s: The '70s was a decade which was rather mellow, compared to the '60s. Certain entrepreneurs began to realize that just about anything might sell so long as it was packaged or advertised in the most enticing way. As a result, untold millions of people bought such worthless, useless, and inconsequential things as Pet Rocks, mood rings, and Ginsu knives. In the mid-seventies, Disco actually overtook the good music for a while, and we had the Democratic do-nothing President, James Earl Carter.
Although Jimmy Carter became an admirable humanitarian after he left office, while he was Commander-In-Chief often seemed that he didn't know what he was doing. Or, he couldn't get much of his agenda through an unyielding Congress. Also, the Energy Crisis while he was in office didn't help his legacy. Perhaps as a result of his failures as President, we have pretty much been cursed with administrations of vicious and avaricious Republicans ever since. [Until Bill Clinton and later Obama came along.] (to be cont'd)
[Originally published in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early 1990s and part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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