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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by supporting goals yeah

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they're always there to give a pep talk to the goalie that let them in all right [Goalie having pep talk with the goal]

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okay let's take a look at passage our countdown tomorrow mother commented as

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All right here's a question which of the following groups

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would be most likely to support the goals presented in the excerpt and here

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your potential answers oh okay so of course this is heartwarming and

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optimistic and all that good stuff abolishing poverty is great ending [Man discussing ending poverty]

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killing and disease awesome eliminating illiteracy yeah go shmoop crippling

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bigotry putting it into war and it's all brilliant stuff and then there's that

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part where he's like I'm dreaming big here so how's about we all live to be [Johnson in a jar laughing]

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200 sounds achievable right also I wanted to rain skittles but to know purple ones

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I hate the purple one okay so maybe we read between the lines here for the

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skittles thing but he seems pretty serious about living until two hundred [Man points to johnson's head in a jar]

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we're hoping LBJ never died and is secretly a cyborg living on Mars yeah [Johnson cyborg walking on Mars]

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that's the ticket anyway back to the question who would have supported the

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goals in LBJ's speech well it wouldn't have been B because the whole speech is

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about enacting change through policy and social programs where these advocates

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would be more concerned with one thing money rule ah [Man relaxing in chair and coins fall]

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doh so unless they found a way to mass produce and market equality well this

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wouldn't fit anti-war Republicans wouldn't really go for this either while

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Johnson did advocate for Less war his speech really hammered home policy and [Johnson giving speech and people celebrating]

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government involvement whereas Republicans and want to limit the

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governmental role in social issues they're conservatives from general

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dislike of Johnson's liberal policies would have likely been shared by the

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opponents of immigration at the time who were particularly mad with the ban of

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ethnic origin quotas in Johnson's immigration act so C is out as well

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Johnson's Great Society was brimming with liberalism and therefore was adored [Johnson speaking in a restaurant]

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by those who supported big government aka answer D they loved the fact that

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their government was stepping in to enact change through social programs and

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policies and we love the fact that we and our right answer now if only someone

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would find LBJ up there on Mars well we know he figured it out that's glide dog [Johnson on rocking chair sipping tea on Mars]

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yeah he's left maybe the second cut spot in it up there what do you think

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