We can’t celebrate the Fourth of July on the sixth of July. It wouldn’t be right. Many holidays, however, are routinely moved to create three-day weekends. Holidays can also be changed. Years ago we celebrated Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays; now it’s Presidents’ Day, and we make sure it’s always on a Monday.
I’m proposing that instead of celebrating Martin Luther King Day in January, we move the holiday to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. If we made our election day a national holiday in memory of Dr. King, we would honor his life’s work and his philosophy of peaceful change. If election day were a holiday, as it is in most European countries, we would also increase increase turnout and make voting easier for millions of people. Dr. King would have approved.
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