The Great Society and the War on Poverty

>>1672437

Because the world went to shit by 1968. The national guard were called into 6 cities simultaneously. Major portions of cities like Baltimore were burned to the ground and to this day have not recovered.

>>1672450
>Because the world went to shit by 1968.

Yeah but why? And why would that lead to a rejection of the Great Society?

>>1672587
White people didn't want to give their tax money to rioting black people, which is understandable. It was also understandable for black people to be rioting.

t. White boi whose parents and gf's parents were non racists who fled Miami and Detroit respectively after multiple race riots and huge increases in violent crime.

It was just a token effort for votes. When poor people have had enough of being trodden on they elect some corrupt populist who makes no difference.

>>1672688
>When poor people have had enough of being trodden on they elect some corrupt populist who makes no difference.

Or they, you know, violently revolt.

>>1672660
Not only to Blacks but to poor people to you know.

>>1672437
To add to >>1672450, the Old Left, with its emphasis on labor issues, was dying for a while. The Great Society was the last real attempt to fight for the poor and the working class. Johnson was the perfect embodiment of the idea too, because he literally started off as a dirt poor farmer in Texas.

Unfortunately, the transition to a service economy combined with the counterculture led to neoliberalism among Democrats, because it allowed them to justify pushing for social issues while still screwing over the working class. Among Republicans, the reaction to the counterculture eventually coalesced into the religious right. And naturally they favored big business, as they always have.

>Great
>Society

Caring about poor people isn't cool anymore, identity politics became the hip new thing.

>>1674134
>The Great Society was the last real attempt to fight for the poor and the working class.
And it managed to destroy the black nuclear family, leading to a whole host of issues

>>1675371
Not really. It attempted to do the opposite, addressing the problems put forth in the Moynihan Report.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Family:_The_Case_For_National_Action