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On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:56:01 +0000,  Mitchell Holman says...  

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> > Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins directed USDA staff during the 
> > record-setting 43-day shutdown to continue ushering states toward 
> > compliance with Republicans? signature tax and spending law, which is 
> > projected to kick millions out of the nation?s largest anti-hunger
> > program in the next few months.
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>     The question conservatives won't answer:

I'll answer.

Ask Lyndon Baines Johnson. 

Oh... YOU think "low wages" are because of something the "Republicans" did?

You can't just raise wages and not expect a serious side effect.

For example:

The dust has settled and the evidence is in: The 1960s GREAT SOCIETY AND WAR 
ON POVERTY PROGRAMS of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) HAVE BEEN A 
COLOSSAL AND GIANT FAILURE. One might make the argument that social welfare 
programs are the moral path for a modern government. They cannot, however, 
make the argument that these are in any way effective at alleviating poverty.

In fact, THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT SUCH AGGRESSIVE PROGRAMS MAKE GENERATIONAL 
POVERTY WORSE. While the notion of a "culture of dependence" is a bit of a 
cliché in conservative circles, there is evidence that this is indeed the case 
- that, consciously or not, the welfare state creates a culture where people 
receive benefits rather than seeking gainful employment or business ownership.

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Black America Before LBJ's "Great Society": How The Welfare State ...
While LBJ had high hopes with "the Great Society," HIS WELFARE STATE RUINED 
MANY BLACK COMMUNITIES and created generations supported solely by the safety 
net.

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Black America Before LBJ: How The Welfare State Inadvertently Helped ...
https://libertarianinstitute.org/economics/lbj-great-society-war-on-poverty-
welfare-state-helped-ruin-black-communities/
The 1960s Great Society and War on Poverty programs of President Lyndon B. 
Johnson HAVE BEEN A GIANT FAILURE. Social welfare programs are in no way 
effective at alleviating poverty. Learn how LBJ's welfare state creates a 
culture where people receive benefits rather than seeking gainful employment.

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The Failure Of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/big-government/the-failure-of-
lyndon-johnsons-great-society/
The welfare state is often discussed in relation to its effect on racial and 
ethnic minorities, yet crime, single parenting and drug abuse also increased 
among poor whites in the aftermath of the Great Society. When the government 
indulges and subsidizes counterproductive behavior, we tend to get more of it.

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The Destructive Legacy Of The Great Society - Manhattan Institute
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-destructive-legacy-of-the-great-
society
The welfare state is often discussed in relation to its effect on racial and 
ethnic minorities, yet crime, single parenting and drug abuse also increased 
among poor whites in the aftermath of the Great Society. When the government 
indulges and subsidizes counterproductive behavior, we tend to get more of it.

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Great Society - Wikipedia
The Great Society was a series of domestic programs enacted by President 
Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States between 1964 and 1968, aimed at 
eliminating poverty, reducing racial injustice, and expanding social welfare 
in the country.

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What Was The Great Society? Comprehensive Analysis Of Lbj's ...
https://historyrise.com/what-was-the-great-society-lbjs-government-reforms/
What Was the Great Society? Comprehensive Analysis of LBJ's Transformative 
Government Reforms, Implementation Challenges, and Lasting Impact on American 
Life The Great Society was an ambitious collection of domestic programs, 
legislative reforms, and social initiatives that President Lyndon B. Johnson 
launched during the 1960s with the explicit goals of eliminating poverty, 
reducing racial ...

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What Everyone Gets Wrong About LBJ's Great Society
Jan 28, 2018 - History Dept. What Everyone Gets Wrong About LBJ's Great 
Society It wasn't some radical left-wing pipedream. It was moderate; and it 
worked.

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20 Pros And Cons Of The Great Society - Propulsions.Com
https://prospluscons.com/pros-and-cons-of-the-great-society/
Nov 11, 2024 - The political tension surrounding the Great Society continues 
to influence discussions on welfare reform and the role of federal government 
in public life. Conclusion The Great Society represented a transformative 
vision for America, with initiatives aimed at reducing poverty, promoting 
civil rights, and improving access to education and ...

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1971 Richard Nixon - Dismantling the Great Society
www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/11/1971-richard-nixon-dismantling-
great.html
1971 Richard Nixon - Dismantling the Great Society By 1968, there was a 
conservative backlash against Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society' program. 
President Nixon set out to dismantle what many viewed as costly failures of 
the program. He began with Welfare reform. Through 1971, Nixon was pushing his 
Family Assistance Program (FAP).

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has 
been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the 
point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the 
Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or 
stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The 
president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were 
all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's 
vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of 
hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from 
reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk 
opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump 
announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would 
suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. 
There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be 
received positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 
2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-
night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first 
coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003. 
The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in 
otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - 
the very existence of George W. Bush."