JFK's "legacy" was ratcheted up and deployed to pressure LBJ
into continuing and expanding the Viet Nam war into an ignominous
defeat after Nixon milked it mercilessly and murderously rather than
increasing social benefits LBJ hung his 10-gallon hat on.
That natsec opportunistic manipulation,
You are right about all the positives of LBJ, and I concur.
Unfortunately, you minimize his role in enormously escalating the
Viet-Nam war, which led, quite probably to the stagflation that put
Nixon in power and created the conditions that helped sweep Reagain in
an undid much of
An interesting question is how [Hillary Clinton] would govern should
she win in a landslide. LBJ redux? That didn't work out so well.
Best,
Michael
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Dear Michael --
is an international list, and I hate to hijack it for an
internecine dispute about the
On 2016-08-10 00:05, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> https://overland.org.au/2016/08/trump-fascism-putin-and-wikileaks-the-anatomy-of-a-liberal-nervous-breakdown/
>
> Trump, fascism, Putin and Wikileaks: the anatomy of a liberal nervous
> breakdown
>
> By Olivier Jutel
> 8.Aug.16
>
> Most presidential
Does all this overheated rhetoric and allusions to Lacan really help us
understand the sad realities of American politics any better? The one
thing left out that might easily have been thrown in for a little
further excess is the conspiracy theory that Bill Clinton got Trump to
run.
I think that
https://overland.org.au/2016/08/trump-fascism-putin-and-wikileaks-the-anatomy-of-a-liberal-nervous-breakdown/
Trump, fascism, Putin and Wikileaks: the anatomy of a liberal nervous
breakdown
By Olivier Jutel
8.Aug.16
Most presidential election cycles are dispiriting for the Left. As the
