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We pause.\u00a0 I\u2019m OK with him<\/a>, really.\u00a0 I think he was a great and courageous man who gave the last full measure of devotion to a noble cause.\u00a0 I just, well, have hard time getting into the King worship of it all. I think it\u2019s my age.\u00a0 I am just old enough to remember the bricks of Traditional America being dismantled based on, among other things, the idea that it was soooooo unenlightened for nations to make gods and heroes out of old dead guys.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the unhip generations\u00a0did\u00a0before ours came along.\u00a0 That\u2019s why no small amount of time was taken unpacking the sins, failings, and flaws of those other guys we used to look up to, like Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt (take your pick).\u00a0 Fair enough.\u00a0 If we want to move on, let\u2019s move on.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So it came as quite a shock when many of the most fervent disciples of \u2018we\u2019re so beyond that\u2019 thinking were the ones who turned around and helped make Dr. King into the closest thing to a god this country has ever had.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 In grade school, my kids would start learning about him on the day after Christmas<\/strike> Winter Break, and would spend the next month learning about him, singing songs, doing plays, making art, giving speeches, community service,\u00a0you name it.\u00a0 We never spent that much time on Christmas even in the early 70s.\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly the only holy day that our increasingly secular nation will allow to be venerated in a proper spirit, and not the spirit of the See of\u00a0Wall Street. <\/p>\n

So forgive me if I seem somewhat blas\u00e9\u00a0about it all.\u00a0 I just have this thing about taking people at their word.\u00a0 If one of the reasons why we had to stop all the hero worship America used to indulge in was because that\u2019s just so medieval, then let\u2019s do it.\u00a0 I would hate to think all the lofty ideals of those progressives were really a ruse designed to throw down the establishments they disliked in order to replace them with their own.\u00a0 Nah, I\u2019m sure it wasn\u2019t that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"