Lyndon B. Johnson's Legacy was to put the black man into complete government control, from birth to death. Last of the "Great Society".

[Mikeoxenormous]

The Failure of LBJ's Great Society and What It Means for the 21st Century

Johnson declared war on poverty, jacked up federal spending on education, and pushed massive new entitlement programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, which promised to deliver high-quality, low-cost health care to the nation's elderly and poor. When Republican Richard Nixon(establishment Progressive Republican) succeeded Johnson, a Democrat, as president after the 1968 election, he continued and even expanded many of the Great Society programs despite being from a different political party.

But did the Great Society achieve its goals of eradicating poverty, sheltering the homeless, and helping all citizens participate more fully in the American Dream? In Great Society: A New History, Amity Shlaes argues that Lyndon Johnson's bold makeover of the government was a massive failure despite the good intentions of its architects and implementers.

LBJ thought that by creating "affordable housing" for blacks he could then move them away from the affluent white areas of the inner cities. This created massive poverty, drug use, and despair of many black families.

MSN

Why did we build high-rise public housing projects?

It wasnt WE, it was a racist Democrat from Texas who thought that he could buy the black vote, and he did, until now where more black people are moving away from the plantation Democrats, which Kamala Harris, once again, wants the government to fund "affordable housing". When people dont study History, History tends to repeat itself.

 

[rampart]

allowing americans to vote and educate themselves is a bad legacy? you need to reconsider that.

if the dixiecrats had supported johnson in 1968 he would have won handily. what was their beef with johnson?

 

[candycorn]

Meanwhile back in reality, the senate is what, 89% white and male? I’d say Johnson failed.

 

[martybegan]

The Failure of LBJ's Great Society and What It Means for the 21st Century LBJ thought that by creating "affordable housing" for blacks he could then move them away from the affluent white areas of the inner cities. This created massive poverty, drug use, and despair of many black families.

MSN It wasnt WE, it was a racist Democrat from Texas who thought that he could buy the black vote, and he did, until now where more black people are moving away from the plantation Democrats, which Kamala Harris, once again, wants the government to fund "affordable housing". When people dont study History, History tends to repeat itself.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained also by stupidity.

LBJ's nascent racism and political pragmaticism aside, I think the creator of the Great Society programs really thought their ideas would improve on people's lives vis a vis poverty.

What they didn't account for was the shift in morals away from personal responsibility, as well as the ability of bureaucracies to pretend to be fixing problems while instead perpetuating them, while improving things just enough to continue to validate their existence, and even their expansion.

 

[Pappadave1]

allowing americans to vote and educate themselves is a bad legacy? you need to reconsider that.

if the dixiecrats had supported johnson in 1968 he would have won handily. what was their beef with johnson?

Uh, Johnson didn't choose to run for re-election in 1968. He opted out due to health concerns and died a couple of years later. The Dixiecrats COULDN'T vote for him since he wasn't on the ballot in 1968. Other than Nixon, their only other choice was that inveterate Yankee Hubert Humphrey.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[rampart]

Uh, Johnson didn't choose to run for re-election in 1968. He opted out due to health concerns and died a couple of years later. The Dixiecrats COULDN'T vote for him since he wasn't on the ballot in 1968. Other than Nixon, their only other choice was that inveterate Yankee Hubert Humphrey.

yes yes and somewhere in there rfk was killed and we made it clear that the war must end. i lived it. you?

 

[Pappadave1]

yes yes and somewhere in there rfk was killed and we made it clear that the war must end. i lived it. you?

Lived it? I was on active Army duty when RFK was killed, so yes.