His programs had a socialist bent which echoed Marxist/Leninist solutions to pressing economic problems. And my point is, regardless of LBJ and who our leaders were: American society *at large* was going through an inner siege. For better (civil rights) and worse (secularization - which is definitely Marxist influence. )
Marxist-Leninism involves a good deal more than just socialism.
It’s jailing and or killing your political rivals with a one party state.
“American society *at large* was going through an inner siege”
Yeah well I spent my teenage years living through the 60s and I somehow missed the “inner siege”. What we had was social change fueled by The Pill, pot, rock music, the draft and an unpopular war, inner city riots, assassinations- in other words uncontrolled history just like today. I was just younger.
” For better (civil rights)”
Sure, if you love the thought policing and gov’t coercion that have grown out of it. The road to hell being paved with good intentions.
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan both opposed the 1964 civil rights act because like every other conservative of the time they knew that it would grant too much control over average Americans to the political class and the administrative state. And boy did they hit the bullseye on that one.