Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967 - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence [Full Speech] - YouTube

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967 - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence [Full Speech] - YouTube: Many folk have heard that the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. made the comment that the U.S. government [was/is] "the greatest purveyor of violence i...

 

How prophetic is this? "But ultimately he had his sights beyond the current war. “We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values,” he said. “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” King warned of a time of endless war, when the U.S. would be trapped in one overseas entanglement after another while the gap at home between the rich and poor grew ever larger.”

Of course, the Ayn Rand cult, libertarians and Republicans mostly, personified by Trump today, with its Nietzschean ideology celebrating the übermensch, welcomes the gap growing ever larger between the rich and the poor, but the “the symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit,” was left untreated, and continued to fester, so that it has come to pass “we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.”

But try telling that to the vast majority of Imperial America.