Who Says the Democrats Are All That Bright?

Earlier today I posted a column in which I excoriated the GOP for appealing to the left side of the IQ bell curve by promoting a narrative which is just dumb as shit. But I can’t drop the issue without first acknowledging a simple fact: when it comes to the government doing dumb things, the dumbest thing ever done by the federal government in my entire lifetime (I am 79 y/o) was done by two Democrat(ic) Presidents — JFK and LBJ.

I’m referencing of course the decision first by Kennedy and then ratified by Johnson to go to war in Viet Nam, a decision which wasn’t just dumb but terribly destructive in every sense of the word.

What did we get because two Democrat(ic) Presidents, supported by every Democrat in the Senate with the exception of Ernest Gruening and Wayne Morse, didn’t want to be the first American President to lose a war? I’ll tell you what we got.

We got 60,000 names on a fucking memorial wall in D.C. which included two of my classmates from public school. We got the landscape and people living in that landscape in two countries immolated and burned to hell. We got Nixon and his phony ‘Vietnamization’ policy while he bombed the shit out of Cambodia and North Vietnam. And most of all in the rest of the world the idea that the U.S. represented justice and decency in political affairs, an idea which emerged at…