Effate wrote:
I wonder what LBJ would have thought of his “Great Society” (wow, sounds like a MAGA slogan) legislation today? Do you think he, unlike the Democratic machines running most of our major cities for decades, would recognize that the well intentioned programs and policies spawned by legislation and executive edicts of his presidency are 60 year old failed models still in use. Ideas that have thrown 13 trillion at the was on poverty and by most metrics perpetuated cultural poverty and cycles of dependency. We have more crime, out of wedlock births, divisiveness, greater economic divide, less personal accountability, a mindset supported by politicians and mainstream media that success is an impossibility due to all the barriers that society presents, etc. etc.
I wonder what LBJ would have thought of his “Great... (
show quote)