If you want to fight crime you reduce poverty. If want to fight crime you make each school in America a palace of learning. If you want to fight crime you eradicate unnecessary human suffering. If you want to fight crime you fight the origins of despair. You do not invade cities.
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We DID have a War on Poverty and it DID work.
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Replying to @DisappeariodDX
Read up on LBJ.

Jul 23, 2020 · 2:42 AM UTC

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But never forget that his War on Poverty was undermined by his commitment to the Vietnam War. Had it not been for Vietnam, he would have been a powerful progressive who truly carried on FDR and TR's legacy.
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