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>>>>This is the modern American disease: vested interests see to it that privateering innovation is replaced by parasites sucking greedily and resisting change: and the only valid purpose for displacement of people or technologies is to send more life blood the parasite's way.
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>>That's often true, but not inevitable.
>>It's certainly been true with the health care system and it's been shamefully true with guns in the USA.
>>We don't use the term "leadership" very often, but getting people to try to do things against seemingly overwhelming odds requires great leadership.
>>For my generation, JFK embodied that idea.
>>Reagan was the closest we've had since then.
>>I had hoped that Obama would have it but that wasn't to be.
>>We saw some flashes of it with Bernie and I hope that we haven't heard the last of him or his followers.
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>Johnson ?

That's a great question.
Johnson and Ike accomplished more between them than all the other postwar presidents combined.
The Vietnam blunder sullied his legacy, but he certainly knew how to lead.
His ability to get people to do his bidding was legendary.
Just recently I came across a story about how he persuaded supreme court justice Tom Clark to step down so that JBJ could appoint Thurgood Marshall- the first black justice.
That was good old fashioned politicking at its best.