The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King’s Final Year

The anniversary of his assassination always brings a flood of tributes to Martin Luther King Jr., and this Sunday will surely be no exception. But those tributes — including from countless organizations calling themselves progressive — are routinely evasive about the anti-militarist ideals that King passionately expressed during the final year of his life.

[consortiumnews.com]

{The pattern is positively Orwellian. King explicitly condemned what he called “the madness of militarism.” And by any reasonable standard, that madness can be diagnosed as pervading U.S. foreign policy in 2021. But today, almost all politicians and mainstream media commentators act as though King never said such things, or if he did then those observations have little to do with today.}

Let me repeat this again. History, when applied to todays information is often the most important provider of the underlining construction towards full development of the truest sense of understanding. It, along with critical thought, evaporates the false narratives towards perception management which MSCM uses to erase history. If MSCM were to use past actions to compare todays actions on the foreign policy issues of today, they themselves would be able to help challenge our representatives and the ruling class. History however also teaches us how the ruling class became their owners. The world became a stage of fallacy.

{Yet the silences across so much of the U.S. political spectrum, including the liberal establishment and a great many progressive groups, persist in contempt of what Martin Luther King stood for during the final year of his life.}