LOL! Since liberals don't have a real God, they have to create one. Conservatives may admire Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, or any number of other great figures, but they don't demand that everyone bow and scrape to them. There's nothing on the right comparable to the iconization of flesh and blood human beings we see on the left.
Just look at the mandatory photos of Castro or Stalin in everyone's home or shop in their respective nations. Recall all the photos of Mao that were all-encompassing, and how his worshipful followers walked around carrying little red books so that they could consult it every waking moment. What Would Mao Do?
We haven't yet reached that level of totalitarian thought control, thankfully. But the deification of Martin Luther King is pretty close. Any negatives about the man are covered up, and if they slip out, they're rationalized. Remember when it came out that King plagiarized his dissertation? We were told that it was commonplace for black preachers in the South to borrow sermons from one another, so King probably didn't know that he was doing something wrong. Of course, that didn't explain why he had footnoted passages he had quoted elsewhere in his dissertation.
King was a complicated man. There was both good and bad about him, and after reading his speech on the Vietnam War I lean more toward the view that the bad predominated.
It's really a shame that the GOP has drifted so far to the left that it feels a need to idolize someone who supported the enemy in the Vietnam War.
I'm no Paul supporter. But I think we can condemn true racial hatred, such as the Stormfronters, without going to the other extreme and elevating MLK to the level of a god.
as usual...you said what I meant without my usual nonsensical hyperbole
thanks
I believe Dr. King allied with the radical left, not inasmuch as he really believed what they believed (He was a registered Republican before the war) but rather, they were a very powerful voting bloc of that time, and he wanted to get his message across.
You make strange bedfellows when you have an agenda, and not surprisingly, MLK, at that time, who was a lifelong Republican, sided with the left, only because he was more interested in getting his agenda brought forward.
And besides, winning a war abroad to bring freedom to South Vietnamese would mean nothing if there was no freedom for American minorities. We would have been hypocrites to fight that war and not help minorities gain equal rights.