re: Could Lyndon Johnson be the worse President ever

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I think it is disingenuous to say black people, particularly in the south, weren't treated as second class citizens before and into the 60's (at least). But Johnson's civil rights agenda in no, way, shape, or form came from a place of altruism. He viewed them as "dumb" useful pawns he could use to create a monolithic voting block for a party which, before then (and during) was the face of racism in the US. His plan was to make them government reliant. He succeeded.

Equality would have organically come about (albeit at a slower pace). But it likely would not have come at such a cost of destroying the nuclear family ideal amongst black people

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He basically gave them a form of living off the government. They were framed under the hand of the Democratic Party.