LBJ worked for FDR. FDR worked for Woodrow Wilson. The evil goes waaaaaaaay back, folks.
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You got that right! It goes WAAAAAAY back. And, although it precedes W. Wilson, in my opinion the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 (by Wilson and other RATS) is what finally locked it into the U.S.
...or maybe it was the results of the Civil War that helped centralize federal power....