Today I saw a wonderful post on Facebook about Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and how they met: Jimmy’s mother delivered baby Rosalynn when Jimmy was 3 years old, and they fell in love 17 years later. Someone commented on that post that the Carters were horrible human beings because one of them (not clear who) once “mouthed off to Nancy Reagan.”
I could find no such incident. Nancy and Rosalynn even became sorts of friends.
I realize this was one person. For all I know it might be one of Putin’s agents or bots. However, the number of “likes” on that comment was also disturbing.
Jimmy Carter happens to be in my top 10 list of decent humans and the Reagans are classified as criminals in my mind, but even without that, I realized that in the upside-down, evil is great world of the MAGA brain, there is something so fundamentally different that we might as well be separate species.
I am aware of the dangers of “otherization” so I will speak only for myself: No, I simply can’t get along with everyone.
(end rant)
Now to end on a positive note:
Jimmy Carter knew Eleanor Rosalynn Smith from basically the day she was born.
On August 18, 1927, Jimmy's mother, Lillian Carter, a registered nurse, helped deliver her neighbor Frances "Allie" Smith's eldest baby, Eleanor Rosalynn. The next day, she brought her 3-year-old son Jimmy to meet his new neighbor.
Many years would pass before they would begin to date in 1945, when Jimmy was home in Plains during summer vacation before his final year at the U.S. Naval Academy. Jimmy's younger sister, Ruth, was friends with Rosalynn. As Rosalynn would later recount, "Ruth and I had been trying to get me together with him."
One July night, Jimmy spotted Rosalynn outside the United Methodist Church, and asked her on a date. That night, they went to a movie. "The moon was full in the sky, conversation came easy, and I was in love," Rosalynn would later write in First Lady from Plains, her memoir. The next morning, Jimmy remembers, he told his mom he was going to marry her.
I could not find the Facebook post anymore. The above is from Town and Country