The author points out liberal elite as the engineers of both the failed Vietnam war and the Great Society.
As regards immigration, I do not think the problem was necessarily the type of immigration, but the liberal anti-Christ ethos and welfare programs that they most often end up being seduced by. And seeing Democrats as their saviors they vote for them, even if contrary to their faith and family values they were raised with. While many seek to gain the world (via Democrats) they end up losing their souls, and that of their kids, while giving support to the engineers of societal destruction,
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Because it was all about vote buying.
“I will have those n*****s voting democratic for the next 200 years”
- LBJ
Well put.
I wish I could put together eloquent posts like that.
all I know is I hate the #### and he’s one of the biggest POS to ever hold the office of POTUS.
These social engineers are just wrong about everything. No God means evil prevails. A policy for a permanent dependent underclass and punishment of the capable will always fail when there are no more workers to pay the bills.
One thing I’ve long said social planners are completely ignorant of is an aspect of the law of diminishing returns that I call the Pilot Program Effect.
Pilot Programs are different from large bureaucracies in any number of ways such as they still have flexible organization, their people are motivated and often more competent than average, and there is a big difference between doing something and doing nothing ... which is to say the law of diminishing returns hasn’t kicked in yet. There are more but those three are enough.
Essentially Pilot programs cause unrealistic expectations and I would argue that their structural advantages as mentioned above can overcome some aspects of really stupid ideas that have been tried and it quite probably takes monumental incompetence or mendacity to get a well conceived pilot program to actually fail (such as the Chicago Annenburg Challenge under Obama and Ayers and friends).
But once out of the pilot program the gloves come off.
A related idea is that bigger systems are inherently more able to be hidebound and inflexible, to be wasteful, be it the government a rich State with lots of people compared to a smaller State or all of the several States combined compared toany given State. This should argue for keeping most government as local as possible ... which is of course anathema to Leftists who these days are bucking for even international governance!
There are not rich to fund a Great Society. There never will be.
Because in their mind “great” means “centrally planned” by our betters.
Drugs man. Drugs.
I freely admit being too young to have a clue at the time I was in-country. Now, I am ready to fix bayonets. GD McNamara is dead unfortunately.
LBJ bankrupted this country in his eagerness to create a modern slave plantation.
They won’t go on four no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren’t afraid to say what’s on their minds
The left behinds of the Great Society
HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY!
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The Hippies and Leftists were absolute control freaks.
Now, they are at the top of this country’s governance.
Excellent and thanks for posting.
Instead, they put in place things that are destroying this once great country. Leftists are horrible.
JoMa
The answer is quite simple: They didn’t have enough sow’s ears to start with.
The next time we’ll have more; and THEN Utopia will be ushered in!
FDR and LBJ with the New Deal and the Great Society sought to bribe the electorate with the public treasury. They were pretty successful, unfortunately.
Oh, I dunno.
Looking at the state of the nation and Millenials in particular, I think the social engineers were diabolically successful. Beyond their wildest dreams even.
“Great Society?” Humbug. What you are talking about is a “great” government. And since government is (at best a necessary) evil, government will never be better than society. But it will always pretend to be.SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.
The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.
The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
The fundamental fallacy of “democratic socialism” is that you can have freedom when government and society are one and the same.
When there is no freedom - when no one is allowed to differ from anyone else - there is no virtue in “democracy”. In such case, if all vote or if one person votes, the issue will be the same.
3 steps to human destruction:
1. Willful Self-determination
2. Wicked Self-deception
3 Woeful Self-destruction
Always self-check and re-calibrate to Source.
They didn't do that and, naturally, they took US down the wrong road where we crashed and burned.
Those fires are still burning, too.