Kellyanne Conway's Desecration Of Martin Luther King
Conway’s eyes are now literally dead, devoid of any life after years of defending a lying, sociopathic predator who destroys everything around him.
by Ben Cohen
Wikipedia’s describes ‘desecration’ as “the act of depriving something of its sacred character, or the disrespectful, contemptuous, or destructive treatment of that which is held to be sacred or holy by a group or individual.”
Martin Luther King Day is for all conscientious Americans, a sacred day when the nation pays respects to one of the greatest humanitarian leaders in human history. Leave it then, to one of Donald Trump’s most repellent grifters to desecrate such a day by claiming the civil rights leader would be supporting Trump through his impeachment trial.
“I don’t think it was within Dr. King’s vision to have Americans dragged through a process where the president is not going to be removed from office, is not being charged with bribery, extortion, high crimes or misdemeanors,” Conway told reporters on Monday.
When asked by NBC News why Trump’s schedule that day did not include anything that would be commemorating King, Conway declared that impeachment was contrary to the principles King espoused.
“The president is preparing for Davos, agrees with many of the things that Dr. Martin Luther King stood for and agreed with for many years, including unity and equality,” claimed Conway. “And he’s not the one trying to tear the country apart through an impeachment process and a lack of substance that really is very shameful at this point.”
Translation: Trump isn’t recognizing Martin Luther King Day because he’s just like Martin Luther King.
“I’ve held my opinion on it for a very long time,” Conway continued, “but when you see the articles of impeachment that came out, I don’t think it was within Dr. King’s vision to have Americans dragged through a process where the president is not going to be removed from office, is not being charged with bribery, extortion, high crimes or misdemeanors.”
“And I think that anybody who cares about ‘and justice for all’ on today or any day of the year will appreciate the fact that the president now will have a full throttle defense on the facts."
What any of this has to do with Trump not officially recognizing Martin Luther King Day is anyone’s guess, but one only has to study the footage of Conway churning out yet another vapid, meaningless non-answer to comprehend the grotesqueness of the administration she works for.
Conway’s eyes are now literally dead, devoid of any life after years of defending a lying, sociopathic predator who destroys everything around him. Her face is sunken and her body language almost despondent as she robotically calculates what sequence of words will filter through the media system to Trump’s base most successfully. She knows liberal America despises her and the man she works for, so crafts answers specifically designed to play with Fox News viewers. Conway’s sense of shame and decency no longer exists, and her physical appearance reveals the true toll of her Faustian pact. This is what happens to everyone who works for Trump. To do the president’s bidding is to violate one’s sense of morality and decency so completely that you no longer resemble a human being.
In Trumpland, locking immigrant children in cages, allowing toddlers to die from lack of medical care because they aren’t American (read white), and calling black nations “shit holes” means you can be compared to a great humanitarian leader. Not only that, attempts to hold Trump accountable for his blatantly criminal acts is akin to the racist persecution of Dr. King.
This is the alternate reality Trump and his minions have strived to create — a fictional land where up is down, left is right, and Donald Trump is the second coming of Dr. Martin Luther King. There is nothing sacred in Trumpland, no part of American life or American history that cannot be lied about, demeaned, distorted or corrupted. A day celebrating a great man who stood for decency, equality, and racial justice is just another opportunity to spew deceitful talking points that right wing media outlets can run with.
The only way to counter this onslaught of disinformation, lies and hatefulness is to do what others have done in history to stop it.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,” Dr. King once said.
This matters, and Americans cannot remain silent. Every lie must be exposed, every distortion countered, and every attempt to destroy the sacred met with unrelenting resistance. Trump and his administration are attempting to crush the mechanisms of justice in America through a campaign of lying, and the lying knows no bounds. When Kellyanne Conway evokes Martin Luther King’s fight for justice in defense of Trump, Americans must remember what King had to say about justice - a principle he dedicated his entire life to.
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress,” said King.
Justice then, was not just for white Americans, but everyone regardless of race or creed. To uphold the principles of justice also meant that those in power could be held to account for the injustices they were responsible for — a principle Kellyanne Conway and Donald Trump will never willingly accept. It is a principle that they must be held to though, if America is to ever recover from this dark period in its history. The Republican controlled Senate will no doubt exonerate Trump despite his obvious criminality — an injustice that will bring great shame to a country that prides itself on the rule of law. As Dr. King once wrote though, the only way to cure injustice is to expose it:
“Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”
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An outstanding essay. Leave it to Kellyanne Conway to spin shit into fools' gold.
"Conway’s sense of shame and decency no longer exists"
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Are you suggesting that at some point they did?