Having nothing to boast about in reality, some months ago Republicans calling themselves “Raging Elephants” put up a billboard in Houston disingenuously stating that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. In short, MLK was no Republican.
King made great efforts to remain non-partisan, aligning himself with “causes” not political parties…. but a man who said, “…a guaranteed annual income could be done for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth…” …doesn’t exactly sound like a Republican.
It’s not surprising. We can reasonably expect the Right Wingers among us to attempt to rewrite King’s legacy to suit their ideological agenda becausethey have nothing in reality to boast about. Seriously, what are they going to say? “Vote for us! We’re the party that shifted the tax burden from the rich to the middle class -creating the widest gap between rich and poor since the Gilded Age by telling the middle class that “brown people” were coming for their money!”
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