Frustrated, angry US lefty here to suggest slogan to needle the corporatist neoliberal Democratic Party, move the Overton window left in the direction of progressive / populist / social democratic safety net platform, policies (even if the bad guys own the White House, the House, the Senate and the extreme Court😡):
New rule: Dems must quickly become the best of #FDR, #JFK, #LBJ
Just some figurehead who accomplishing nothing, no one of importance /s
Just some figurehead who accomplishing nothing, no one of importance /s
I recently read Patrick Cox -- Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator.
It's a must read for anyone interested in Texas, but it's not just Texana; in fact, it's a scholarly work that merits attention from anyone who wants to understand the political history of the USA from the the twenties to the Civil Rights movement.
I found fascinating Yarborough's evolution from an East Texas Democrat who hemmed and hawed about Brown and "forced integration" to his becoming the only US senator from the South to have voted for all of the major Civil Rights bills.
Following Yarborough's political career can help the reader understand the broader transformation of the Democrats in the postwar era.
His often frosty relationship with LBJ is an important theme of the book. Their differences were not just personal, but arose from Yarborough's unwillingness to join LBJ in forging bonds with the major industrial and financial powers of Texas to facilitate both campaigning in the giant state and the passgage of modernizing and desegregating legislation.
As Cox notes, Yarborough remained in many ways a figure from an earlier era; a teetotal Southern Baptist happier with courthouse square stemwinder oratory than TV campaigning, an old style hands on politician who tried to answer his mail personally, much to the frustration of his staff. Yet his part in pushing forward measures on civil rights, education, health care, and the environment also shows him pushing into a future that we still have not realized in full.
The account of his battles with Allan Shivers will remind you of just how barf making these southern conservative Democrats were!
#RalphYarborough #Texas #USHistory #USPolitics #CivilRights #LBJ #Democrats #AllanShivers #Liberals #SouthernPolitics #TheSouth #ConservativeDemocrats
Aftersome by You Man is a hypnotic journey, a sonic mosaic reflecting the unpredictable beauty of the paths that emerge as we move forward. #music #youman #aftersome #album #lbj
This image of #LBJ opening the Denton Federal Underground Center in 1961 is going around. Here is a link to a KSAT San Antonio story from 2018.
Cold War era underground government facility in Denton built to survive nuclear attack
#ColdWar #FEMA #Denton
https://www.ksat.com/news/2018/05/03/cold-war-era-underground-government-facility-in-denton-built-to-survive-nuclear-attack/
@petergleick Reminiscent of #W and #Cheney and the #WMD in #Iraq, #LBJ and the #TonkinGulf, and many others
In the case of FDR vs LBJ, it seems that by far followers are more Team FDR. I actually defended him in the penultimate episode of American Presidents: Totalus Rankium. If you haven't already, check it out (as well as the entire series)! #FDR #LBJ #POTUS https://pca.st/a5xkj1cx
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Mr. Tough Guy?
Trump pointing his finger into Putin's chest á la Nixon/Khrushchev ain't nuthin' compared to getting the #LBJ trtmt.
For 1 thing, think Putin's intimidated?
Nah.
For another, LBJ actually did intimidate & got what he wanted. It's how he pushed thru his Great Society & civil rights legislation against wishes of Dixiecrats, who later left en masse for anti-civil rights GOP.
Think both LBJ & frmr Taoseich Leo Varadkar are laughing for the same reason?
Nah.
Exactly 60 years ago today the Voting Rights Act became law, thanks to Black liberation struggle via Diane Nash, Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, Coretta Scott King, Amelia Boynton, John Lewis, James Lawson, James Bevel, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, et al. LBJ speech: https://www.lbjlibrary.org/object/video/signing-voting-rights-act
NEW: Wednesday’s POLITICRAT.
The 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-politicrat/id1503246845?i=1000720946466
#mlk #votingrightsact #voting #votingrights #lbj #podcast #usa
July 28, 1965 - President Lyndon Johnson ordered 50,000 troops to Vietnam to join the 75,000 already there. By the end of the year 180,000 U.S. troops will have been sent to Vietnam; in 1966 the figure doubled. In addition to countless Vietnamese deaths, close to 1900 Americans were killed in 1965; the following year the number more than tripled.
President Johnson explained: “We intend to convince the communists that we cannot be defeated by force of arms or by superior power.”
#LBJ with some 1964 as badass as politics got during those times.
#Constitution #uspol #CivilRights
Als der Präsident auf seiner Ranch den Zentralbankchef schubste: Mein Text über die Versuche der US-Präsidenten, die Fed zu kontrollieren: #Trump #LBJ
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/u...
Zinsen: Trump, Johnson und die...
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
Has there ever been an assembly of "acid-droppers" that could NOT reasonably be described as "rag-tag?"
Happy "March on the Pentagon" 50th, Hippies, Yippies, Pacifists and Rag-Tag LSD Weirdos of all sorts!
#Pentagon #Vietnam #VietnamWar #Nixon #LBJ #JFK #uspoli #1960s #HistorySky
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@paninid
I've often heard #Republicans trying to claim #CivilRights icon #MartinLutherKing/#MLK as one of their own... citing "Negroes" fleeing Deep South anti-Civil Rights Dixiecrats.
At the same time #JFK & #LBJ were advancing Civil Rights, #Republicans started courting the Deep South over to their side where they remain to this day.
MLK Jr famously warned against voting for Barry Goldwater and endorsed Kennedy:
March 31, 1968 - President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek re-election, ordered a partial bombing halt in Vietnam, and appointed W. Averell Harriman to seek peace negotiations with North Vietnam.
#LBJ
