MLK's Dream Is Trump's Nightmare

Trump has so often appealed to many of our country’s worst demons — chief among them the very same triplets of racism, excessive materialism, and militarism that King worked to dismantle. Trump also both exploits and amplifies for his own benefit the pernicious feelings of grievance and victimization that are all so prevalent among his many of his ardent supporters. In contrast, King constantly sought to appeal to our better angels, calling us to live up to the promises and ideals of our founding documents and the timeless moral teachings of his Christian faith such as agape love, altruism, and service. “You are what you are because of somebody else,” King said. “You are what you are because of the grace of the Almighty God. He who seeks to find his ego will lose it. But he who loses his ego in some great cause, some great purpose, some great ideal, some great loyalty...he who discovers that he stands where he stands because of the grace of God, finds himself.” Read Full Article »