However hard sacrifice, or personal responsibility, may be for each of us to deal with along the way – in order to fulfill it – sacrifice is in reality boot-camp training for the bigger more intense test of adversity. 

Sacrifice provides us glimpses of a person’s nature.  Adversity goes to a person’s core, disclosing their character and their state of thinking that formed it.

That is why choices matter.  An individual vote has value beyond a trade-off for political support in return for golden eggs from government at all levels. 

Government is everything in a socialized environment that will birth an egalitarian society.  No responsibility, no obligations, no sacrifices, yet inevitably the chickens will come home to roost for everyone and statist government will smother individual liberty, personal happiness, and ultimately the lives of many who are no longer of utilitarian use.

Dr. King would understand that “We the People” are being tested.

He knew that people will either ‘stand up for something or fall for anything’.

The question for every American lies inside their mind and heart.

Those who are willing to stand up and be counted must do so with courage.

Those who now understand should muster the courage to act in accordance with that understanding, and ponder the wisdom and truth in the words of Martin Luther King. 

MLK would know which candidate is clearly credible as the heroic role model for all Americans to support and follow.