He was an American socialist but recognized the evil of totalitarian communism.
Primitives don`t want equitable socialism,they want to be the elite in a totalitarian society...the benefits of capitalism without expending any effort.
They tell us time and time again how brilliant and gifted they are so it is no wonder they hate a person who was against a political system they feel would give them what they are owed.
If the primitives had any sense of reality, while Franklin Roosevelt (the New Deal), Richard Nixon (the negative income tax, or the earned income credit), Ronald Reagan (making it easier for the lazy to get social security disability benefits), and George Bush (vast expansion of social spending), would be the pantheon of their lesser gods, Lyndon Johnson would be the main one, the Big Guy.
There wouldn't be any place for Jack, or Jimmy, or Bill, who didn't do squat for the primitives.
If the primitives had any sense of gratitude for those who made their wretched existence possible, every year on the anniversary of Johnson's birthday, the primitives would gather at a Buddhist temple in, say, San Francisco, shaving their heads, wearing orange robes, and hoisting an enormous golden Buddha (paid for by tithes from the grateful primitives) on a platform on their shoulders, walking in a circle around the temple, ooming and aahing and chanting and mantraing and strewing rose petals and apple blossoms in the path, bowing and genuflecting at this big-bellied representation with the face of.....Lyndon Johnson.