What complimentary thing(s) can you say about the other side?
We all have politicians we disagree with or a political party we think is crazy, and then we have politicians or parties we like. But none of us fit perfectly into a box, even if we self identify as Republican, Democrat, or whatever else we can think of.
A discussion I had today led me to think of this question.
What is something that a politician of an opposing political ideology has done that you would have to agree with?
For me, it's the Head Start program enacted in 1964 by LBJ as a part of his Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Unfortunately, it does not appear LBJ will ever shed his legacy as the Vietnam president, because his domestic legislative record, both as a Senator and President is practically unmatched. What Head Start did was put education at the forefront of economic advancement, something that Johnson believed in, and I admire. The failures of Head Start have not come from the program itself but the ineffectiveness of the the schools after the child leaves the program. The children who left the program and stayed isolated from their impoverished surroundings showed great promise through their education lives.
I think this is so great because it really promotes education as being the ticket to a better future, both economically, and socially. And if economically disadvantaged children do not receive that education, they will not have the opportunity to improve their lives and get off government assistance.
We all have politicians we disagree with or a political party we think is crazy, and then we have politicians or parties we like. But none of us fit perfectly into a box, even if we self identify as Republican, Democrat, or whatever else we can think of.
A discussion I had today led me to think of this question.
What is something that a politician of an opposing political ideology has done that you would have to agree with?
For me, it's the Head Start program enacted in 1964 by LBJ as a part of his Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Unfortunately, it does not appear LBJ will ever shed his legacy as the Vietnam president, because his domestic legislative record, both as a Senator and President is practically unmatched. What Head Start did was put education at the forefront of economic advancement, something that Johnson believed in, and I admire. The failures of Head Start have not come from the program itself but the ineffectiveness of the the schools after the child leaves the program. The children who left the program and stayed isolated from their impoverished surroundings showed great promise through their education lives.
I think this is so great because it really promotes education as being the ticket to a better future, both economically, and socially. And if economically disadvantaged children do not receive that education, they will not have the opportunity to improve their lives and get off government assistance.
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