Frankly, I think history will eventually exonorate Jimmy Carter as a president. But the point I was making was that Ronald Reagan was a much worse president than Carter.

                And you have a very good point about the Republicans being better salesmen. The Democrats seem to be stupid enough to expect the public to be able to make informed decisions. All of that would explain why the Republicans continue to attack public education, they dumber they can make the American voter, the better chance they have of getting elected.
                And, if they have to have software engineers, they can just import them from India.