Posted on 11/20/2018 7:26:25 PM PST by daniel1212
Not to mention the 501(3)(c) in a Trojan Horse, which enables the IRS to intimidate many churches into silence over expressing support for the best candidate.
Drugs man. Drugs.
LBJ and the 89th....
Lemme see, couldn't have been the Boomers. They were too young.
Couldn't have been my Silent Generation. Whether old enough or not, we didn't have the numbers.
That leaves the Greatest Generation.
Not a put down. Just a fact.
Though without McGovern (only possible because LBJ didn’t run)...
Because of RFK's assassination, HHH took LBJ's place in '68. McGovern was in '72
It can be argued that his policies and killer Kennedy’s immigration bill started the path to the fall of the Republic.
Hopefully we have started to reverse the fall.
There were plenty of Republicans in that 89th Congress who passed LBJ’s programs for him. In fact you’ll often hear conservative talking heads boasting about how Republicans were responsible passing the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Well they’re right, although that doesn’t explain why any conservative with a lick of sense would brag about it. Both Goldwater and Ronald Reagan opposed the bill, knowing where it would ultimately lead.
“killer Kennedy’s immigration bill”
A bill his brother Jack had wanted, which often is overlooked. That bill is what has killed California. The rest of the country is next.
I freely admit being too young to have a clue at the time I was in-country. Now, I am ready to fix bayonets. GD McNamara is dead unfortunately.
LBJ bankrupted this country in his eagerness to create a modern slave plantation.
But, we geezers may choose to go out in a blaze of glory, rather than waiting for what disease kills us first.
I’m a Boomer and my first vote was for Carter. So I’m not responsible for the Great Society. However, my parents lived through the Great Depression and WWII. I’m thinking that when JFK got shot and LBJ got the job, the Greatest Generation were looking for some guarantees. So they fell for socialism. They probably regret it now. So do we.
They won’t go on four no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren’t afraid to say what’s on their minds
The left behinds of the Great Society
HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY!
So we see the consequences of a 'Rat super majority, a minority led by a self-proclaimed moderate, and a 'Rat in the WH. The sheer volume and utter failure of legislation passed in those two sessions is something few today understand or appreciate, but it should serve as warning against the apparent drift back to the 'Rat principles.
Exactly! And JFK was an asshole too despite what many republicans/conservatives like to pretend.
Imagine if Kennedy had served his term and projected 2nd term? He was just as bad as Johnson. He just didn’t get the chance to prove it.
Neocon Ttotskyists usurped the RNC after WWII. That is why they opposed both Goldwater and Reagan.
That’s a trip down memory lane, those names are all familiar to me. I was growing up in DC at that time and somehow I began following politicians the way that most kids followed baseball. I was carrying a Washington Evening Star newspaper route when I first began to regard Lyndon Johnson with visceral contempt.
Unfortunately things didn’t change much when Nixon took office. He signed a series of domestic bills that most people would imagine had to have been part of the Great Society program. Nixon just added to what LBJ had been doing. The GOP was an opposition party in name only. Meaning that the later Bush crew would be nothing new.
The anomaly was Reagan, but then he was opposed by the GOP establishment. He came in from the outside, not as dramatically as Trump but still against the wishes of the GOP elites.
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I did not know that.
But after watching the Nixon Kennedy debate some years ago, I saw that he was actually quite liberal.
At the time if you were on welfare you received food clothing cigarettes and maybe shelter (housing projects) but you did NOT get cash. That all changed when the Democrats decided that kind of program was demeaning and an "insult" to the "inherent dignity" of the recipients.
So we started giving the "needy" cash payments for everything from food and clothing to shelter. Making them the equal in every respect to those who worked for a living and got paid in cash each week. Except the "needy" didn't have to work for their paycheck.
The "social engineers" removed the "stigma" of the government handout and turned it into a cash cow for the underclass. In exchange for cowardly surrendering to the criminal classes and paying them off to "behave" themselves and not riot, loot and burn down America's neighborhoods, we now have a country where 51% of the populace is on some form of government benefit program, and a disgraceful national debt of over $21 trillion.
(Terry) GROSS: My reading of your book - and you can tell me if this is how you see it - is that beneath all of his idealism - maybe not initially, but certainly fairly soon - beneath all that idealism was this cynicism that he knew how to play people. He developed a very large African-American following and said something - I'm just going to paraphrase here - but said something to another of his followers that if you keep them poor and hungry, they'll always stay with you, you know, because there’ll be a need.
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