>> . . .
One of the best things about Johnson's War on Poverty programs
was you had to go to Washington every year for proposal and grant
reviews. The effect of meeting everyone else engaged in essentially
the same activities, facing very similar problems, as to say the least
explosive. When Nixon wanted to kill all this activism off, he
couldn't just shut off the money--although he tried.
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I don't mean to shock the list, but my reading of the history has Dems, especially urban, ethnic machines deeply complicit in the transformation of social spending from 'empowerment' directed stuff to bureaucratized forms. There was the Edith Green amendment in Congress which was a key blow to community action programs.
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. . . The point to that
had nothing to do with state government power, it had to do with
getting the liberals and progressives out of the federal system by
turning them out to their little hidebound, provincial regions. . . . >>
Now I'm confused. I've learned here and on PEN-L that the liberals and progressives are the real problem . . .
Cheers,
mbs