Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

The year Jimmy Carter was elected president of the United States my like minded friends and I gathered enough signatures to put the American based Socialist Workers Party on the ballot here in Rhode Island . We had to gather more than 2000 signatures to assure that at least half of them were valid . I and a woman friend , a militant feminist named Annette G. , served as presidential electors for the SWP which put forward radical leftist firebrand Peter Camejo ( later Ralph Nader's vice -president running mate in the Green Party 2000 ) as their presidential candidate. . In 1980 one now well known and dubious " socialist " Bernie Sanders served as a presidential elector for Socialist Workers Party . Many years later I am still inspired by Peter Camejo's 1968 speech " How to Make a Revolution in the United States " . What we democratic socialists ( in contrast to various STALINIST parties on Left ) thought about Jimmy Carter and his then ( not completely decadent ) Democratic Party has stood the test time. Our general criticism of the TWO PARTY SYSTEM in capitalist USA has stood the test of time . Indeed, our general criticism of capitalism , American imperialism ( in 1979 defeated in Iran , the torment of the Carter years ) and Israeli Zionism has stood the test of time. Sad to say that sundry political cults on the Left have not stood the test of time. What WE THE PEOPLE need is not any sectarian " socialist " party now but a more inclusive , with more mass appeal, American Labor Party - a lot like the British Labor Party but less stuffy and compromised. Various factions on the working class Left can compete for influence in the intellectually healthier atmosphere of a truly mass party . Note : President Jimmy Carter's Christian orientation would certainly disqualify him for much influence in today's WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party openly contemptuous of God and Christianity. For these elitist snobs seeing a Ten Commandments monument in a public park is like Count Dracula catching a glimpse of a silver crucifix !