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Seeking or ceasing greatness
All the dainties of rulers offered at the tables of the State like Universal basic income or the promise of reparations is not only a snare but it is the cutting the throat of poor and black people with a dull knife.
Work hard, live wise, and do not take a bite out of your neighbor through the teeth of governments with any appetite for the dainties of the welfare state.
The practices of the people of America which allowed it to approach greatness was their willingness to care for the needy of their society through charity.
In the 1850's the people and politicians knew that when the, "... ‘public charity’ or ‘legal charity’ (public relief by the welfare state) begins to supplement the private, voluntary charity that was the traditional form of assistance to the poor" there is a degeneration of the masses in society. "And it is here that we confront the ultimate irony of history:the unforeseen and unfortunate consequences of good intentions." Alexis de Tocqueville’s Memoir on Pauperism.
By the 1930's we forgot this ancient wisdom of both prophets and historians of the past]] and with the covetous practices of legal charity the people pursued the degeneration of the masses, sealing the fate of the nation to the process of a decline and fall of America to the dustbin of history. Unless Americans change their thinking and individually again pursue righteousness of those pryor practices of social virtues they will be unable to restore the nation in accordance with the perfect law of liberty.
Without the regeneration of the social bonds of a free society, there will be now defense against tyranny and those forces that would ruin the people.
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)[1]
A new Caesar
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969.
- "To not know what occurred before you were born is to forever remain a child."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Was Lyndon Baines Johnson a wise or foolish leader, was his policies good or evil?
The Caesars rose to an office of growing power as the people became weak.
While Julius Caesar bribed the people and bought his popularity with gifts, gratuities, and benefits it was Augustus Caesar who nailed the coffin shut on the once great republic spreading his legal charity amongst the people in the form of free bread.
Did the policies of Lyndon Baines Johnson insure the self-destruction of the United States by steadily undermining the soul of America?
Historians like Polybius would emphatically say yes. Plutarch would also agree along with many prophets of the past.
- "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Ezekiel 16:49
LBJ had previously served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 under President John F. Kennedy. Johnson's presidency began following the assassination of President Kennedy.
A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a U.S. representative, U.S. senator and the Senate's majority leader. Johnson holds distinction as being one of the few presidents who served in all elected offices at the federal level.
Born in a farmhouse in Stonewall, Texas to a local political family, Johnson worked as a high school teacher and a congressional aide before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1937. Johnson won election to the United States Senate from Texas in 1948 after narrowly winning the Democratic Party's nomination. He was appointed to the position of Senate Majority Whip in 1951. He became the Senate Democratic leader in 1953 and majority leader in 1954.
Johnston had developed a reputation for his domineering personality. Johnson being over six feet tall, used his physical stature to aggressively coerce powerful politicians to advance legislation, this behavior became known as the "Johnson Treatment".
None of this tells us what is most important to know about Johnson and the havoc he was to wreak upon America.
Alexis de Tocqueville's opinion about the social effects of legal charity or reading Thomas Sowell would make it clear how the welfare state degenerates the character of the people which is needed for the social bonds of a free society. But few study such wise men anymore and if they did we must ask if they have the eyes to see and ears to hear?
Great Society
President Johnson's domestic policy was aimed to create programs that would expand civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education and the arts, urban and rural development, and public services of all shapes and sizes.
In other words a welfare state. His social safety net would be a snare that would not only addict people to the Democratic Party and its promise of more and more free stuff. Eventually, Cloward and Piven would use the Roots of the Welfare State to push the whole of society toward a communist state.
Johnson coined the term the "Great Society" in 1964 to describe these efforts. In addition, Johnson sought to create better living conditions for low income Americans. Johnson himself growing up in an impoverished household in Texas solidified his yearning for power and wealth by making the unreal promise to end poverty in the United States.
He spearheaded a campaign unofficially called the "War on Poverty". Assisted by a strong economy, the War on Poverty helped millions of Americans rise above the poverty line during his administration.
Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 and gradually moved African-Americans towards the Democrats. He signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Johnson's presidency marked the peak of modern progressive liberalism in the United States and opened the door to activists like Cloward and Piven.
Karl Marx knew that democracy leads to socialism which empowers the followers of communism while weakening the people as the masses develop an appetite for their "gifts, gratuities and benefits" which destroy liberty. [2]
Like FDR and his New Deal and its socialist agenda LBJ set America far down the road to the modern welfare state. With a little knowledge of history we should have seen the canary in the coal mine that foretold the doom and damnation in-store for America with the promise of welfare and social security through legal charity and at the expense of our neighbor which would curse our children.