In all reality, LBJs great society was like going to an AA meeting and offering all you can drink free beer.

The choice to sign up was on those who did, and remains with those who continue to do so.

Unfortunately, the society that has been created demands conformity to its lack of values and makes it more difficult to really improve and become free of the Government issued miasma that has fallen over so many. Whites are affected, too, as are others who opt in, and the effects are quite similar. Dependency, crime, poverty sponsored by the state.

There is always a choice, and there are plenty of folks who will give those looking to better themselves a chance. The rest is up to the individual. Do they have the inner strength to overcome their situation? Will they take the chances with being ostracized and make their own, personal progress from the projects to prosperity?

 

At summer house, so am missing the fireworks.  How's it looking?

Texas Scorecard by  Brandon Waltens   | May 20, 2024

Incumbents campaigning against colleagues has been a forbidden practice. Now it’s a three-day tour.

There’s been an unwritten rule in the Texas House for a long time: incumbent members should never campaign against other incumbents.

Known by some as the “Incumbent Protection Program,” the “tradition” was so pervasive a few years ago, that the Texas House Republican Caucus actually enshrined the prohibition in their rules and has threatened to censure members who dare to violate it.

And so when I say it is remarkable that a group of incumbent and incoming legislators hit the road for three days to travel 1,000 miles around the state exposing their colleagues for cozying up to liberal leadership and killing conservative priorities, I mean it.

This is far from business as usual. This hasn’t been done before.

The Silver Bullet Tour, hosted by Gun Owners of America, started last Wednesday in Burleson with a campaign rally for Helen Kerwin, who is challenging State Rep. DeWayne Burns.

It wound through the metroplex, making stops for David Lowe (who is challenging State Rep. Stephanie Klick), Andy Hopper (who is challenging State Rep. Lynn Stucky), and Katrina Pierson (who is challenging State Rep. Justin Holland).

It wasn’t all smooth sailing.

The group encountered a torrential storm as they traveled to Beaumont.

But despite the weather and the long distances, the coalition trekked on, taking major shots as they told voters the record of the incumbents.

At a stop in Denton for Andy Hopper, State Rep. Brian Harrison rebuked the notion that those members seeking to pass the legislative priorities of the Republican Party of Texas were extreme.

“The only extremism in the Texas House comes from our liberal drunk Speaker Dade Phelan,” Harrison told the crowd at Robson Ranch to raucous applause.

Incumbents ignoring the grassroots was a common theme among all who joined the tour.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/analysis/what-a-1000-mile-bus-trip-says-about-the-shifting-balance-of-power-in-austin/

A female psychiatrist's take:

Where Have all the Real Men Gone?
How the feminization of culture and the decline of the male hero is ruining everything for everybody (Part 1)
Pairodocs
Apr 25, 2024

I like men. I like the fact that they are different from women—that they are from Mars while we are from Venus. I like the fact that they're always trying to fix things. It's adorable, even when it's annoying. Men are not women—even though you can now get yourself banned from social media for saying so out loud. ...

When I was growing up, this is how our culture portrayed men: Yes, the Marlboro Man. ... We all know that the stereotype I’ve just described is a product of the patriarchy (the white Christian cis-heteronormative patriarchy, to be precise) and we know this because the venerable American Psychological Association—an organization increasingly dominated by women—has said so. In its 2018 Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Men and Boys, the APA concluded that “traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance, and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful.”  ...

Without heroes and positive male role models (which create expectations for behaviour) both men and women—and boys and girls—are suffering. If we immerse boys and young men in a culture that tells them their innate traits are toxic, that their contributions are not needed and that we expect nothing of them, how could they fail to live down to our low expectations? When we tell them that striving and competing are proof that they are toxic males, can we blame them for choosing to stay in mom’s basement playing video games and smoking dope? ...

Everywhere we turn, boys are failing, falling behind academically (at every level), dropping out of the workforce and killing themselves in record numbers. Although “experts” tell us we are still living in a patriarchy, it’s hard to escape the sense that we are increasingly living in a toxic matriarchy, complete with emotional reasoning, “mean girl” ethics, and a culture of radical safetyism at the expense of Malboro-Man-style liberty and honour. Contra the APA, I would argue that what we need is more stoicism and less concern with the “feelings” of those who choose to embrace victimhood. ...

Read entire essay at https://pairodocs.substack.com/p/where-have-all-the-real-men-gone

See also Part 2: Welcome to the Gynocracy

Thanks, Pookie.