A Certain Route To Failure Part 1: A Crisis In Confidence

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

"A Certain Route To Failure" is the Muckrake Podcast's first audio-documentary that will explain how we've arrived at this moment of division, crisis, and confusion, beginning with this pilot episode "A Crisis of Confidence." Though critics and conventional narrative have come to regard President Jimmy Carter's "Malaise Speech" as one of the worst in presidential history, it was actually incredibly popular and well-received at the time. Faced with an energy crisis and a growing societal disillusionment, Carter addressed the United States on July 15, 1979 with a speech that sought to deal with our problems in a reasoned, honest manner and to rally Americans to move beyond divisive politics and consumerist culture. This series will examine this moment and the chain of events it began, culminating in our current situation where Americans feel totally removed from the political process and helpless to change their circumstances. Become a patron so you can hear future episodes before the general public, and be part of an incredible community and discussion: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0	Hello, Muckrick listeners, and welcome to the first of a four-part series we're calling
0:05.5	a certain route to failure. This documentary has been to serve as a chronicle of how we've
0:10.4	arrived at this moment of crisis and division, as well as highlight a better way forward.
0:15.8	A quick thank you to our listeners and supporters. Please stay tuned at the conclusion for a list
0:20.3	of our producers who made this project possible. at the conclusion for a list of our producers
0:21.1	who made this project possible. Before the series ends, we'll have made our way through
0:25.8	modern American history and one of the most misunderstood speeches of all time.
0:31.2	And now, a certain route to failure, part one, a crisis in confidence.
0:36.9	Good evening.
0:38.3	This is a special night for me.
0:41.3	Exactly three years ago, on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States.
0:52.3	I promised to you a President who is not isolated from the people,
0:58.2	who feels your pain and who shares your dreams, and who draws his strength and his wisdom from you.
1:09.3	It was the summer of 1979.
1:11.6	Americans were suffering under the burden of skyrocketing inflation.
1:15.6	The country was on its way to another recession, while an oil crisis kept people waiting in long lines to pump expensive gas.
1:23.6	The government itself was mired in stagnation and inviting, unable to get tangible policies
1:29.5	done to help its constituents. And that's when President Jimmy Carter sat down in front of the
1:35.0	American people to do something few presidents had ever done. Speak the truth.
1:40.3	So I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or
1:46.4	inflation.
1:48.1	I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.
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