Anti Federalist
05-18-2014, 03:40 PM
And here we are, 50 years later, pretty much my lifetime to the day: 18 trillion dollars in debt, more people in prison than any other nation on earth, by any definition living under a police/surveillance state the scope and size of which Orwell could not have imagined, the states effectively castrated in their dealings with the FedGov, regulation without representation as hundreds of alphabet soup agencies write millions of regulations that have the force of law and arm to the teeth against the people, hair-trigger, out of control militarized cops armed by the Feds that will shoot you, your loved ones or your pets if you so much as twitch funny, the black family utterly destroyed and young black men living fatherless under perpetual unemployment and threat of prison, other ethnic groups, including whites, following close behind...
I could go on and on.
You get the point.
The bloody coup of 1963 has, by the perspective of the PTB that really run this train wreck, been wildly successful.
Mission Accomplished...you destroyed the last remaining obstacle to world government and the world wide surveillance state AKA The Prison Planet.
Fuck you Lyndon, for all that we know you did, and for all that we think you did.
Fuck you.
LBJ’s unprecedented and ambitious domestic vision changed the nation. Half a century later, it continues to define politics and power in America.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/05/17/the-great-society-at-50/?tid=pm_pop
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“We are living in Lyndon Johnson’s America,” said Joseph A. Califano Jr., who was LBJ’s top domestic policy adviser from 1965 through the end of his presidency. “This country is more the country of Lyndon Johnson than any other president.”
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“I never thought I’d have the power,” Johnson told Goodwin and Moyers. “I wanted power to use it. And I’m going to use it.”
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The irony, of course, is that while Reagan and other presidents tried to eradicate Great Society programs, nearly all survived in some form, and spending on them continued to rise. The federal government has grown even larger — more than five times as big as it was in 1960, in real dollars — while public faith in it stands near all-time lows.
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The economy was booming, ginned up by a big tax cut. America was mourning a slain president who had ignited its idealism. The civil rights movement had awakened its conscience. The nation was led by a president of unmatched legislative skills. And confidence in Washington was as high as pollsters have ever seen it.
Back then, when Americans were asked how often they trusted the federal government to do what is right, nearly 80 percent said just about always or most of the time, according to data compiled by the Pew Research Center.
That confidence would begin to erode dramatically in the mid-1960s as Vietnam and social disruption surrounding the Great Society shook Americans’ faith in the government that had brought them through the Depression and World War II.
By the end of 1966, their favorable view of Washington had declined sharply, to 65 percent — and it had a lot farther to go. It stood at 19 percent after last year’s government shutdown.
(Oh how wish that 19 percent meant something. It means nothing, other 81 percent of Idiot AmeriKa is pissed that the Feds are not spending more, handing out more, and tyrannizing both at home and abroad, more. - AF)
I could go on and on.
You get the point.
The bloody coup of 1963 has, by the perspective of the PTB that really run this train wreck, been wildly successful.
Mission Accomplished...you destroyed the last remaining obstacle to world government and the world wide surveillance state AKA The Prison Planet.
Fuck you Lyndon, for all that we know you did, and for all that we think you did.
Fuck you.
LBJ’s unprecedented and ambitious domestic vision changed the nation. Half a century later, it continues to define politics and power in America.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/05/17/the-great-society-at-50/?tid=pm_pop
<snip>
“We are living in Lyndon Johnson’s America,” said Joseph A. Califano Jr., who was LBJ’s top domestic policy adviser from 1965 through the end of his presidency. “This country is more the country of Lyndon Johnson than any other president.”
<snip>
“I never thought I’d have the power,” Johnson told Goodwin and Moyers. “I wanted power to use it. And I’m going to use it.”
<snip>
The irony, of course, is that while Reagan and other presidents tried to eradicate Great Society programs, nearly all survived in some form, and spending on them continued to rise. The federal government has grown even larger — more than five times as big as it was in 1960, in real dollars — while public faith in it stands near all-time lows.
<snip>
The economy was booming, ginned up by a big tax cut. America was mourning a slain president who had ignited its idealism. The civil rights movement had awakened its conscience. The nation was led by a president of unmatched legislative skills. And confidence in Washington was as high as pollsters have ever seen it.
Back then, when Americans were asked how often they trusted the federal government to do what is right, nearly 80 percent said just about always or most of the time, according to data compiled by the Pew Research Center.
That confidence would begin to erode dramatically in the mid-1960s as Vietnam and social disruption surrounding the Great Society shook Americans’ faith in the government that had brought them through the Depression and World War II.
By the end of 1966, their favorable view of Washington had declined sharply, to 65 percent — and it had a lot farther to go. It stood at 19 percent after last year’s government shutdown.
(Oh how wish that 19 percent meant something. It means nothing, other 81 percent of Idiot AmeriKa is pissed that the Feds are not spending more, handing out more, and tyrannizing both at home and abroad, more. - AF)