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Originally posted by sig2392:
When LBJ signed the law he was heard saying they are going to vote Democrat for 200 years.

Replace “they” with a racial epithet and your quote from that pure, racist, bigoted sunuvabitch will be accurate.

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Originally posted by sig2392:
The rule of unintended consequences.

Except,in his case, it was an intended consequence.

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Originally posted by sig2392:
He was anti-racist ...

LBJ gets a lot of credit for civil rights act of 1964, but it was veto proof due to the number of votes it received in both the house and senate. He signed a veto proof bill and people use it as proof of him being anti-racist.

I'm aligned more with ERJ's pure, racist, bigoted sunuvabitch assessment

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Originally posted by tatortodd:

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Originally posted by sig2392:
He was anti-racist ...

LBJ gets a lot of credit for civil rights act of 1964, but it was veto proof due to the number of votes it received in both the house and senate. He signed a veto proof bill and people use it as proof of him being anti-racist.

I'm aligned more with ERJ's pure, racist, bigoted sunuvabitch assessment

Republicans, with a minority of Democrats passed it. Barry Goldwater's greatest mistake was not voting for it because he said it's a "states rights" issue. That single act drove away a sizable number of Black Republicans, notably Jackie Robinson and his followers.

The Facts Are In: Two Parents Are Better Than One

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In her new book The Two-Parent Privilege, the economist Melissa Kearney says it’s time for liberals to face the facts: U.S. marriage rates have plummeted but the babies keep coming, and the U.S. now leads the world in single-parent households. Plus: our friends at Atlas Obscura explore just how many parents a kid can have.

For the record, the author is a liberal and in the course of the podcast, you can tell she's been through the discussion wars of having to explain this to other liberals who refuse to acknowledge or, even recognize the importance of a two-parent, particularly the gaping hole of not having a male figure, in the household. The third segment goes into an Atlas Obscura feature of a unique commune in Virginia where parenting and child rearing is tightly controlled. What they don't explain is the turn-over of the people living there: people are willing to put their morales & ethics up to the test in an unorthodox community but, the reality is there's quite a bit of people who leave the commune thus, only a small minority are suitable for such an arrangement and it should not be held up as an example but merely a social experiment.