[GOPJ]

The ‘great society’ is what turned dignified blacks into dependent losers. I don’t believe Johnson did it on purpose...

[yoe]

No, Neither do I think LBJ did his "great hand out" on purpose any more than I believe Trent Lott repeated what Strom Thurmond said about "helping the poor too much would only ruin them....meaning, cripple them....which in effect it has!

[ChicagahAl]

” I don’t believe Johnson did it on purpose...”

I’m sure it was done on purpose. But not necessarily by LBJ, himself.

People give Democrat Presidents too much credit. The programs they push are dreamed up and written by others. Remember that Democrat politics is machine politics. LBJ probably had his version of Valerie Jarrett and George Soros who pulled his puppet strings - but we didn’t have the internet back then with the information flow that exists today, to know who they were.

Johnson was a crude-but-clever dirty politician, who was only on JFK’s ticket to get some southern votes. Johnson was definitely in over his head as president, much like Zero.

I’m sure that whoever it was, behind the scenes, who invented the Great Society, knew exactly what he was doing.