The slow decline of America since LBJ launched the Great Society

When Johnson became president in 1963, Social Security was America’s only nationwide social program. His programs and those they subsequently legitimated put the nation on the path to the present, in which changed social norms — dependency on government has been destigmatized — have changed America’s national character.--- George Will

Consider the fact that just one lone gunman killed Kennedy, and ushered in this man to be President, and did so much damage to the country.   Yet, the leftist mourn the passing of Kennedy.  If Kennedy hadn't been killed, there wouldn't have been any Great Society.  Most likely, there wouldn't have been any Medicare and no other social programs.  There may not have been any Vietnam War.  But the leftists have profited from Kennedy's death like nobody's business.