Martin Luther King Jr. Was Not A Liberal

In his prophetic "I Have A dDeam" speech, Martin Luther King said, "Let freedom ring till righteousness rolls down like a mighty river." Dr. King draws a direct correlation between righteousness and freedom. After all, you can't have one without the other.

The Left's dirty little secret is that as a movement it has no vested interest in racial harmony or minority progress. The Left needs poverty, racism, and suffering (or the perception of it) to justify its own existence. The last thing Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, etc. want is for everyone to "just get along." Instead, they create conspiracy theories and use scare tactics to tell those who follow them that "the deck is stacked and you can't possibly do anything without our help." Therein lies the roots of the Left's agenda.

Growing up I can remember members of my family voting Democrat in every election. However, since the Reagan administration, the Democrats have over the years adopted a platform completely different than the values that made my family so Democratic in the first place. Back then, Democrats identified more with the values of the voters as a whole and were seen as the poor man's "best friend". Now, while many Democrats may claim to still represent the poor and disenfranchised, one has come to wonder if instead, they really identify with what a poor man treasures most? True, the poor have issues specific to their plight, however, many still have a deep seated faith and belief system that's just as important. After all, whatever a man owns can be taken from him except for his values. The same can be said for minorities and women, the other two groups Dems have long claimed to be looking out for. However, the civil rights movement has been hijacked by people who have turned Dr. King's beliefs on their ear, and through the mainstream media and guilt tactics have managed to embed their newfound version of liberalism in the nation's consciousness.

Today, discussions of race are not about ''content of character", they are about color of skin, sexual preference, nation of origin, and gender. Any person who dares to go against the current-day politically correct stance will be labeled a "racist", "homophobe", "sell-out", etc..

Thus, it needs to be noted that the kind of "liberalism" fought in the civil rights movement, is not the same as today's liberalism. Back then, it had biblical foundations to it. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian who recognized the inherent worth of every human being as a biblical principle. The civil rights movement may have attracted immoral people to it, but that didn't make it immoral itself. Its foundations were still biblical. Today's liberal philosophy is not biblical in any sense of the word. Instead it is an immoral ideology based solely on secular humanism and self-indulgence.

Thus, I'm confident that if Martin Luther King Jr. were still alive today he'd want nothing to do with what defines today's liberalism.