Of course the president doesn't pass law, but they can create it.
Which LBJ did, yes. Goldwater was not the majority view of Republicans, although Goldwater's arguments were based on the fact that government helped create the problem in the first place (and might make it worse). In any case, nearly 80% of Republicans sided with LBJ, way, way more than Democrats.
That's why LBJ thanked the Republicans.
Those are Democratic initiatives.
Now that's re-writing history! The US media has you 100% duped!
No, they were Republican initiatives starting with Women in the '40s and '50s, which Eisenhower then also pushed through for African-Americans where he could (e.g., military), and it continued into the '60s.
JFK was the
first, major Democratic candidate to agree, and that's because he was young and progressive. LBJ continued those initiatives. However, RFK was an entirely different animal. RFK has had his history re-written. RFK
was no friend of MLK Jr. at first. It wasn't until the mid-to-late '60s that he changed, after the '64 Act had been passed.
LBJ, ironically being a racist Texan, was the literal, 'Only Nixon could go to China.' He used to call up his southern white friends and say, "We're going to pass the N(censored) Bill today, whether you like it or not."
As a result, all of the backwards people of the South went Republican, not due to their longing for equality.
Yes, because after the '60s, the Democratic Party started down the 'reparations' route, which eventually morphed into the 'affirmation' strategy. The Democratic Party also found allies in the Green movement, which was at odds with the Republicans business interests.
The Republicans, having accomplished most of the equal rights they had set out to do for 100 years, were more lost than anything. They now were taking issue with the 180 degree reversal with the Democratic party. That resulted in a radical change in the Republican party, on everything from drugs to religion. And that's when the major splits in the party started, for the first time since their foundation.
By the '90s, the Democratic Party had equalized in business relationships. And now, in the '10s, the Democratic Party has more big business alliances than the Republicans. This is also why Donald Trump has become extremely popular, because more and more Republicans are getting repulsed by the Oligarchy.
The Democrats say they do, and Sanders very much is honest about it, but the current administration is far, far more entrenched in special interest than even the W. administration. That's what happens when you grow government and give out so many monopolies as a result of a single, federal clearing house for lobbyists.
Which brings us back to
how the
Republican party is
breaking apart after 50 years of losing its original foundation. They were
very popular before the '70s for
the same reasons most Americans now
self-identify as Libertarian, fiscally conservative, socially tolerant.
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