masterful underscore of Dr. King's timeless words - those which immediately precede the title of the clip strike at the heart of what's gone so wrong in the Western gestalt - Capitalism, somehow felt by some Americans to be synonymous and one with democracy, yet, Europeans, among others, have struck a balance between prosperity and equity, the common good and striving to succeed. The irony that both MLK & Nixon supported the position held by many Economists in the '60s, that universal basic income was the way forward, is as hard to fathom in hindsight, as the fact that Democrats in the Senate, Teddy Kennedy key among them, blocked initial efforts to enact national health, holding out for a better deal that never materialized, a few years later. I think Michael Moore hit the nail on the head - many of the best ideas to ameliorate our social fibre were proposed, and some implemented, before we "thought better of it" - other nations took the ball and ran with it, and aren't afflicted my the same ruses - and demonstrate that social, as the good Dr, refers to here, isn't Socialism per se, rather, conscious and compassionate by consensus. my stock response: "oh, Socialism? like FDR? - yeah, that hasn't panned out, has it (?!?)"
