re: #352 Dark_Falcon

That was more a reference to the fact that 1964 saw the liberal Lyndon Johnson defeat conservative Barry Goldwater but then proceed to get the US mired in Vietnam. Johnson Vietnam failure left may people sorry they voted for him.

I would argue that Johnson’s involvement in Vietnam was part of the Liberalism of the time, and I think something that Liberals realized was an error - the belief that the US should used its military might as World Policemen. FDR Liberalism was interventionist, it was the Liberals who wanted us to get involved in WWII and the Conservatives who wanted to keep us out.

The thing is, Goldwater would probably have done no better in Vietnam, and likely far worse at home. I certainly don’t regret Johnson’s election.