Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
So, as I understand it, the Administration is moving the day of the dead from November 1st to November 5th this year. Zombies Galore!
Kamala will campaigning hard in the graveyards this year. But if Trump gets at least 15% of the dead vote…
….sorry folks.
Miracle Max is a registered Democrat.
Here he is in action prepping the dead for November 5th;
https://images.app.goo.gl/GoW9mn2PmhZPA3Jb9
https://americanreformer.org/author/c-jay-engel/
Engel is an eccentric associated with the Rockford Institute. I’m going to wager he doesn’t find the ghost of MLK Jr. a persuasive authority.
According to his niece, Alveda, MLK Jr was a Republican. Makes sense, since the southern segregationists were nearly all Democrats. Of course the Regime “fact checkers” deny her claim, but the best they can do is say there’s no independent proof. Weak sauce, that.
His father was a Republican I think. MLK Jr was a socialist, although prior to Goldwater he may have voted Republican. After Goldwater if he voted for either of the two major parties he probably voted Democrat. He tended to skitter away from making his politics clear, which I find understandable since he wanted the civil rights movement to be as broad as possible.
I always wince a bit when folks use the term “socialist,” since so few people adhere to the classic definition of government ownership and control of the means of production. I’m not disputing MLK’s socialist credentials so much as pointing out that it is often hard to know what people mean.
I agree Mike that the term socialist is cast around carelessly. MLK Jr. applied it to himself throughout most of his adult life, usually with some modifier like democratic or Christian. His father was a believer in the free enterprise system and he and his son had frequent arguments on the subject. He reject Marxism although he seemed to be getting more radical towards the end of his sadly abbreviated life.
In a 1956 letter to a Mrs. Sloan MLK Jr. says
Thanks for your very kind letter of September 17, making inquiry concerning the way the Negro will vote in the coming election. I am of the impression that the Negro voter will go largely for the Democratic Party. I haven’t fully decided which candidate I will vote for. In the past I have always voted the Democratic ticket. At this point I am still in a state of indecision. Stevenson seems to be more forthright on the race question than Eisenhower, but the Democratic Party is so inexplicably bound to the South that it does leave doubt in the minds of those interested in civil rights. Let us all hope that the candidate most concerned with the welfare for all people of America will win the election.
Sincerely yours,
M. L. King, Jr.,
President
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/viva-o-sloan#:~:text=Dear%20Miss%20Sloan%3A,candidate%20I%20will%20vote%20for.
I had heard MLK Sr. initially opposed Kennedy not because he was a Democrat, but because he was Catholic.
Public opinion was much more variegated among voting blacks in 1960 than it was thereafter. One of the curios of the last 60 years has been that identity voting dissipated among just about every ethnic segment of note except for blacks, Jews, and Puerto Ricans.
Is the punch line that rigged votes from dead people will be voting? Good one. Pray that it’s not an omen for another rigged election.
Another interesting anecdote about Alveda King: when she was asked once by a talk show host if her famous uncle was a Christian (in any meaningful way), she replied: “I think he found Jesus at the end.”
I found her answer intriguing and moving at the same time.