QOTD: LBJ
by digby
The challenge of the next half-century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life and to advance the quality of our American civilization. Your imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society but upward to the Great Society.
I excerpt that inspirational quote from a very interesting long form article by Karen Tumulty about the Great Society at 50. The funny thing is that for all the successful right wing propaganda against the Great Society and the resultant assumption that it was an abject failure -- it wasn't. In fact, many of the programs are still humming along doing good work to this day. And others were also doing well until the conservatives rolled them back. (They helped too many of yhe wrong people --- if you know what I mean.)
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