“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, 1964

Barack Obama elected to feature King’s hopeful outlook in the Oval Office.

Critics are right to question the era to which the “again” from Trump’s notorious campaign slogan refers, but they should reject the reduction of a desire to reclaim part of our legacy to a dog whistle for retrogressive voters. What if the greatness of a point in time is measured not by its position on our moral arc, but the rate at which its people bend that arc toward justice? By that admittedly charitable hermeneutic, “Make America Great Again” no longer exalts our legacy of racism but rather the civil rights leaders who catalyzed its erosion. Conversely, today’s Washington insiders who claim that Dr. King’s arc is hopelessly rigid deserve none of the credit for his work.

Now that describes a movement worth fighting for. Luckily, Dr. King mentioned one other dream:

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1952

Don’t worry, Joe. Martin Luther King Jr. does, in fact, “know the thing.”

Joe Biden may be ahead in delegates and endorsements, but those delegates represent an electorate struggling to discern the truth amid a propagandist miasma, and those endorsements are an attempt at self-preservation from the failed politics that got us here. The electability argument that has been used to prop him up is a lie that seeped out when Hillary said he was “building the kind of coalition I had.” If you think I was rough on Joe, understand this: Donald Trump will gut him like a fish with the same knife he used in 2016.

The reason Trump fears Bernie is simple: he fights for the average American that Trump has betrayed and is shielded by the credibility of an indefatigable outsider.

“If there was ever a moment in history when we are in this together … this is that moment … Let’s have history look back on this … [as the moment] the American people stood up and did the right thing. Cared about each other. Loved each other. Made sure that we all got through this together.” — Bernie Sanders, #FiresideChat on 3/14/20

Bernie ends his first #FiresideChat with some eminently presidential🔥

Bernie Sanders already has the endorsement of an American history written by the dreamers who defied power in pursuit of justice.

We have a choice.

Will we have that same endorsement? Will we be the generation that resigned a nation defined by ambition to the carcinogen of complacency? Or will we be the generation that stood up and fought to make America dream again?

Whether you were a Bernie supporter or a Biden supporter; a Warren supporter or a Trump supporter, the call of history demands that this message ring from every mountainside:

#MakeAmericaDreamAgain