Those who accuse progressives of calling for "purity tests" want this party to stand for nothing.

[zeemike]

188. You and I have had these exchanges before.

And you start this one with the accusation that I am EXCUSES Jim Crow to imply I have done something wrong by talking frankly about history and with a finger wag.

So SS did not cover everyone initially and because of that FDR was worse than LBJ...or so you seem to say...but Obama care did not cover everyone and they are mostly minorities and poor people that cannot afford it...but that gets no criticism at all from you...only the promise of incremental change some day.
And FDR had a much harder time getting SS than Obama did with Obamacare. Obamacare only added to the social program FDR created where none existed at all.
But he did help black people directly with the CCC...young black men were hired for 25 dollars a month and had to send 20 of it back home to their families just like white young men and it saved thousands of families black and white.
But you can shit on it because they were segregated from the white camps...not good enough as they say...but Obamacare is good enough today.

I was stationed at a small military base in a small town in south Texas and it was before Viet Nam...62 to 64...And it was not filled with Republicans like you say...I never heard a single work spoken against JFK...all were shocked by it...those days were not like they are today the military was from all walks of life because of the draft.
My SO was in South Florida and that was another story.
I was there when JFK was shot in Dallas...siting in the library reading a book when the librarian came over and said "they have shot the president in Dallas"...and the locals would tell us LBJ did it because they knew him well.

In 1964 I was sent to Meridian Mississippi to hunt for the three lost civil rights workers who were murdered there...so I think I know pretty well what Jim Crow south looked like.
I wrote about it in my journal, you can read about it here if you like...http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025139769

My facts are from personal experience not from a book.