So you think MLK had all this planned out at the start, is it?
Like, that's the entire crux of your criticism of politicians like Omar and AOC. That they don't have 10 year plans you can refer to, but you do believe MLK did.
Let me clue you in on a concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
You've imposed an arc onto someone's history, then assumed that that arc must've been intentional. The way hindsight works is, when you look backwards, you see the history laid out before you so you can draw a line through events, but while you're living it, while you're living in that line, you can't see it at all. You see MLK's success, and assume that it must've been planned out.
However, in my estimation, MLK is just one member of a generation of activists, the one who happened to achieve the most historical notoriety. He did not singlehandedly make the Civil Rights movement. The movement was made up of everyone who lived and marched and protested in that era. MLK simply had the fortune, or misfortune, to be its most famous member. Attributing some kind of superhuman mastermindedness to him is just so incomprehensibly bizarre. The man was under FBI surveillance for a third of his life. Do you think if he had a 20 year plan it would've escape their notice? Or are you now going to argue that the FBI was secret allies with MLK and that they did not in fact threaten him with censure or worse? Are you going to claim now that the FBI surveillance was also planned for, or that he successfully hid his agenda from the FBI and this is why he's successful?
Absolutely ridiculous. You live in a fantasy world where society moves on the impulses of certain inspired individuals with "plans", instead of the stochastic motion of the masses from which a few people stand out. Of course, this explains a lot about your rhetoric. I don't think you can even believe in collective action, how can collectiveness exist in your worldview if only the individual can move societies?
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