An Interesting Perspective on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

How the civil rights movement led to the conservative takeover of the US govt.

Middle class whites were so unprepared to share the spoils of the American Dream with the colored people who helped build this nation that they turned to a party (the GOP) set on destroying what would most help them hold on to the very thing they desired to maintain.

"Here is the fundamental tragedy of the backlash: Voters like this empowered a party that decided they didn't need protection against predatory subprime mortgage fraud. Didn't need affordable, universal health insurance; made it easier for companies to rape their pensions; kept on going back to the well to destroy their Social Security; worked avidly to shred their union protections. Fought, in fact, every decent and wise social provision that made it possible in the first place for mere factory workers to live in glorious Chicago bungalows, or suburban homes, in the first place."

And here we are 45 years later...