The left long ago abandoned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of color-blind meritocracy, if it even believed it. After 70 years of dismantling our institutions, they have created a world much like the past, where immutable characteristics trump talent and perseverance at every turn. It's easy to fall into despair given the circumstances, but you won't find a solution there. MLK's timeless optimism remains the only viable option to save America.

We all know some of the lines that ostensibly define post-racial America.

“I have a dream,” MLK declared at the 1963 March on Washington. “One day this nation will rise up and live the true meaning of our creed: 'We believe these truths to be self-evident. Created equal.'

“I have a dream that one day even Mississippi, sweltering with oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.”

“I have a dream that my four young children will one day live in a country where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character.”

The power of these words lies in their appeal to the founding ideals of freedom from oppression, equal justice under the law, and the natural equality of human beings. These ideals are universal and exactly what the Founding Fathers envisioned, but they have only been imperfectly applied to Black Americans throughout our nation's history. The civil rights movement gained support from white Americans by arguing that these ideals could only be realized if they also applied to black Americans.

The truth is, MLK was a complicated person. His radical politics are certainly well-documented, if not well-known. But these lines came to represent a kind of myth, one that fueled America's second founding. Multiple generations of Americans have now grown up hearing these stories, leading to the least racist population in history. Gen Xers and Millennials were raised blind to color; (Related: Callista and Newt Gingrich: Americans still believe in Dr. King's dream)

But the heirs of the civil rights movement almost immediately began dismantling this vision. The modern left still holds equality and justice as noble goals. They claim to further perfect the Establishment's vision while completely denying its foundations.

Since equality is now said to be a myth of white supremacy, the left is redefining equality to suit its own goals. Capital — The cause is — means treating individuals unequally based on the color of their skin. Only when historically disadvantaged groups receive favoritism (or vice versa) truth that equality is achieved; Founders' equality changes from a natural condition to a government benefit.

As a result, even though personal racism has all but disappeared, this cynically motivated uprising has further divided society by racial discrimination. The Biden administration is recalibrated The many heads of the Federation Hydra all give chase. capital At the expense of equality and merit. Our interactions are over-regulated to prevent so-called microaggressions in the public and private sectors. The left has reduced us to nothing more than a group of tribes competing for resources within the same geographic boundaries. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as currently practiced is nothing more than a modern-day racial supremacist movement.

Well-meaning people cling to the dream that we are one step closer to eradicating racism, but the reality is that we have been moving in the opposite direction for quite some time. Too many people do not understand this, cannot understand this, and despite their best intentions continue to support people and policies that lead us in the wrong direction.

In this situation, the myth of MLK's vision won't hold us together for long, but reality will eventually prevail. Indeed, we can see that significant damage has already been done to the fabric of society as the left is allowed to rewrite the rules with little challenge from a subservient conservative opposition. From the early days of affirmative action to the George Floyd riots of 2020, mainstream conservatives have been so afraid of aligning with or confronting a left-wing DEI regime that they have held back the cause of true equality. He was reluctant to defend it. But despite the de facto bipartisan agreement, many see the distortions for what they are.

This new, young, highly online bloc is not necessarily limited to the right or to the white working class, although it tends towards one of two reactions.

They are the first to fall into nihilism, or the implicit belief that America is irredeemable. They're appropriating the 1960s mantra “On, tune in, drop out” against 60s culture. The very culture of the 60s that now dominates society teaches straight white men that they are sinful just by existing. We see this manifested primarily in apolitical ways. opioid and suicide The main target of infectious diseases is single and no children young people.

The other is more explicitly political. That human equality is a myth, that the Founding Fathers were wrong, and, most insidiously, that the only way out of racial impasse is for white America to rediscover its own racial consciousness. It accepts the left's own postliberal principles. This does not provide a path to salvation, only more of the same. (Related: 8 people shot at Florida MLK Day event)

The only thing that has held American society together has been our universal principles and the myths that surround them. This has allowed people from countless religions, ethnicities, cultures, and backgrounds to come together under the same beliefs and find common purpose. Of course, the differences between the two still existed, but the myth of the unity of our beliefs gave us a noble reason to ignore them. We believed in the same noble principles that truly defined us as Americans.

An identitarian approach from the right will only exacerbate tribal divisions and cause groups to compete for support even more. It is also immoral to base one's self-worth on the color of one's skin rather than one's character. But this path is not viable, if for no other reason than the American public's psyche is not ready to accept it. The left succeeded only because they disingenuously claimed to be the heirs of the founders and MLK. The right must do the same and win.

The right’s only chance to save America is to further expose the DEI regime and restore MLK’s dream of color-blind meritocracy to the conservative banner.