What if MLK were a doomer?

I know so many things are bad in society right now. Aside from global warming, we are collectively better off than any human generation in modern history. I have no intention of dismissing the bigotry today. Racist gerrymandering is stripping votes from people of color. ICE raids have attacked U.S. communities. The list of anti-trans legislation in the U.S. and the UK (and probably other places) is growing longer and longer. The list of bad is long. But I can pick so many points in our history where things were so much worse. Let's start with the fact that the U.S. legalized gay marriage in 2015. Yes, we're backsliding on queer rights, but we're still far ahead where we have been historically. Talk to an old gay man who's been in a platonic marriage because of what gay rights were like 50 years ago. Let's consider the cold war & the red scare, where even the appearance of supporting communism would put you in front of a government review panel, and you'd lose your reputation and your…