missing “centrist” caption:
got us suckered into vietnam -_-“Ha ha what if I ruined my entire ‘great society’ initiative in order to fail to shore up a military dictatorship and traumatize a generation of Americans and Vietnamese through brutal and pointless protracted warfare? jk jk! … unless…?”
LBJ was one of the most shrewd politicians the US has had as president, and a lot of his policies weren’t as a result of his own beliefs but rather what he thought would politically benefit him the most. His support for the civil rights act was a notable exception to that, based more on his own convictions than political concerns.
LBJ was a wildcard for sure who knows what crazy shit he got into, but that mother fucker did have a huge ass dick. That’s well documented.
