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Butt, but, but... Stereotypes are fun! They allow you to disengage your brain and leave original thought behind.

Butt, but, but... Stereotypes are fun! They allow you to disengage your brain and leave original thought behind.

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Anyways....I think the only thing to be deduced from that poll is that Liberals simply are less proud of themselves.

As a theoretical physicist once said "I find good atheists are more altruistic than good christians, because christians are being good for a reward or to avoid a punishment in the afterlife."

Too funny that you would call MLK a liberal.  He wouldn't.  Just my opinion.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Huh? He was a lifelong Democrat, from a family of Democrats, who not only made conservatives uncomfortable, but was extreme enough to make the Left uncomfortable at times too. I've read just about every single word that man wrote or spoke, and there's no possible way whatsoever that he wasn't a liberal.

And if he's not a "liberal", then he's even more. He's a radical.


In "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community" he constantly proposes liberal ideals such "guaranteed minimum wage", "pegged to the median income of society" that would "automatically increase as total social income grows".

In an interview with Playboy (the fact that he was a preacher who didn't mind Playboy should say enough), he outright says the Black population should get finanical reparations for slavery.

King also worked with communists. Most important among them being Bayard Rustin, protest organizer and the man who introduced King to the Gandhian principles that became associated with him.

All of this sort of "liberal agendas" stuff is what is known as the fallacy of guilt by association, and continuing to perpetrate it in your rhetoric shows you to be weak at arguing a point. All IMO, of course.

Sorry, I forgot to bring my e-peen.  Thanks for bringing yours.

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Sorry, I forgot to bring my e-peen.  Thanks for bringing yours.

Although you are right in saying that the Democratic party of King's time was rife with racist mofos who then fled in droves to the Republican party, I think its fair to say that what was left behind was 'purged' of most racist elements, with the exception of Byrd from W.Va. The racist infection switched sides, is all. It seems to finally being purged from both parties, with the demise of Strom Thurmond et al.

That said, your suggestion that King wouldn't be in favor of migrant worker rights seems ill-fated.

Furthermore, one pack of reactionary retards in California doesn't define 'liberalism today' anymore than any self-styled conservative would like to be equated with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, NewsMax or Pat Robertson.

First you have the temerity to argue Martin Luther King stuff with Stray, of all people... I'm not even that foolhardy... then you accuse my husband of waving his electronic penis about.  Everyone knows I'm the one with the electronic penis in our house!