American History Part Twelve (1963-1968)

1963

John F. Kennedy was not popular in the South. Understandably, people were not given a full in-depth news story as to the handshake with Russia that saved the world, and so pretty much the same feelings America had about Kennedy before Bay of Pigs was what they had later. Save the world all you want anyway, they said. You’re Roman Catholic and you visited that commie n-word Martin Luther King while he was in jail!

And it became an agenda for the Kennedy Administration to see if they could coddle some Southern states for Election 1964, not just to win re-election, but to win the support of the military’s all-stars for what he was about to ask of them in Southeast Asia. They had been worried about the southern vote forever, even in 1960, which is why they would make Lyndon Baines Johnson from Austin, Texas his running mate when a Massachusetts man in Kennedy usually warranted someone way out west.

They would head south to see what all of this could do for them.

This is what JFK was doing in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

People are always bagging on the CIA for JFK’s murder. But what I want to know…is what kind of heinous, treasonous shit that ex-marine Lee Harvey Oswald had done to America that would have prompted people that powerful to put Oswald in the position to be a fall guy for a presidential assassination? You had to have been caught by the CIA for something first, no? 

As so with JFK gone, LBJ would take office and be swept directly into war with Northern Vietnam. It got back to the United States public that the Vietcong had killed U.S. soldiers on a boat in the Gulf of Tonkin, and Congress thus would go ahead with the draft.

Vietnam was always always always at war.

Vietnam girls are BEAUTIFUL, I mean all Asian girls are hot, but all the other Asian girls seem to be in environments where it’s pretty much clear that the man with money is in charge. 

It’s not perpetually left up to dispute like it is in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s only crime was finding politics to be secondary to what they really liked to do — farm. In Southeast Asia, farming is a sport and an art form like with any Parisian chef. The Vietnamese farmer cultivated rice like it was a cuisine. They dried wet rice continuously in the sun BEFORE selling it to consumers because the crunch of the rice was part of the fun. Was crunchy for the longest as it boiled. They had hobbies that they made a good decent living at. That was what they wanted. Any political party that would help the case…great…we’ll vote for ya. There were in fact people throughout the Vietnamese countryside who admired all forms of politics, they weren’t set on just one the way most political-heavy countries are like America or Australia or England. Yet communism was ideal for people who wanted to stay home and do what they liked. This is why it’s so offensive to Americans. With capitalism you work for what you’re worth. Communism is essentially like being dependant on your parents. I don’t think I’ve spent more then two minutes in the past year personally thinking about money. All I’ve done is write. Which means I’m now broke, exceptionally vulnerable to the worst possible forces, and yes, I don’t even care if I have to live with my mom in order to get myself back on my feet. And that was what was happening to Vietnam. We all despite jackoffs, but jackoffs all know that at some point, at SOME POINT, no matter who were are or what we’re into…we all have to be businessmen.