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The Importance of Remembering King’s Vision of Economic Justice and Equality as a Contrast to Trump’s Proposed Agenda
As I sit watching Donald Trump’s inauguration, with the billionaires’ boys club of Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, TikTok CEO Shou Chew, among other CEOs and oligarchs, seated obsequiously behind him on stage, these optics make clear the importance of remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision for human emancipation could not be more important.
And the importance of King’s vision lies in the contrast it offers to Trump’s past and proposed policies. For example, his infamous tax cuts during his first administration redistributed wealth to the top, and his proposed tax cuts promise more of such redistribution, raising taxes on working families while relieving the wealthiest of even more of their responsibility to help pay for the world that makes their production of wealth possible. Plus, the elevation of anti-worker and anti-union billionaires, such as Bezos and Musk, should thwart any illusion that Trump’s regime will in any seek to empower workers in their struggle for better wages, beneits, and working conditions, including workplace democracy.
Trump is installing an oligarchy, and there’s no reason to believe these folks will encourage Trump to draft policy that suddenly makes them pony up with their…
