Proper now, residents throughout the U.S. and the globe are witnessing, in actual time, the acute adverse results of giving far-right conservatism just about absolute energy within the U.S. We’re watching an administration stuffed with underqualified white nationalists — who frequently play to right-wing extremists and use extremist ideology to create government coverage — flip the U.S. right into a pariah and laughing inventory, incomes us the ire of our enemies and allies alike.
Conservative leaders within the U.S. are aiding Israel in wreaking havoc within the Center East with out a discernible trigger or a believable exit plan. A Republican-dominated federal authorities has now overseen two authorities shutdowns throughout the final yr, the GOP has been ineffective in stopping President Donald Trump from trampling throughout congressional authority, and Trump’s hairbrained insurance policies are pushing us additional in the direction of financial collapse. In the meantime, the MAGA messiah demonstrates on daily basis, with each recent social media put up and public look, that he has fully misplaced contact with any semblance of actuality.
Anyway, Supreme Courtroom Justice Clarence Thomas thinks progressivism is America’s biggest menace as a result of, properly — after all he does.
“Progressivism seeks to interchange the fundamental premises of the Declaration of Independence and therefore our type of authorities,” Thomas stated Wednesday, throughout a televised speech on the College of Texas Austin Legislation College meant to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary.
Thomas’ speech was as boring as any speech might be when it’s delivered by a much less excitable model of Stephen from Django Unchained. He babbled on about how a spirit of “cynicism, rejection, hostility and animus” towards America has taken maintain of Individuals, and about how the values enshrined within the Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among the many populace, a situation he blamed on “intellectuals” with none sense of irony in any respect.
And, after all, no Thomas speech could be full with out Stay-Motion Uncle Ruckus indicating that he has fully forgotten that he’s a Black man by insisting that it’s a brand new phenomenon that many individuals now not imagine “all males are created equal” and deserving of “unalienable rights.” Like — sir, you have been alive throughout Jim Crow.
If Thomas — the Black man who actually expressed that he needed to throw SCOTUS’ Brown v. Board of Schooling choice out with Roe v Wade — have been alive when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, he would possible have been an enslaved particular person, who was forbidden to learn to even learn the doc for himself. If Clarence have been alive to listen to Fredrick Douglass famously ask, “What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?” he would have responded, “Negro, you’re fortunate the beneficiant white man is letting us breathe up all of his free air!”
Additionally, I’m fairly certain he thinks the Declaration was signed by Pink, White and Blue Jesus.
“[Progressivism] holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, however from authorities,” Thomas stated. “It requires of the individuals a subservience and weak point incompatible with a structure premised on the transcendent origin of our rights.”
Thomas appears to be actually upset that progressives imagine our legal guidelines and Structure come from the federal government, not God, simply because it’s indisputably true that our legal guidelines and Structure got here from the federal government, not God.
The founding fathers, the drafters and signers of the U.S. Structure, have been human beings, not deities. They put ink to paper after they wrote out their collective imaginative and prescient of america of America; it wasn’t delivered to us through holy pill after some man spoke to a burning bush about it.
Simply because our present president will get a kick out of depicting himself as Jesus and thinks he’s holier than the Pope, it doesn’t imply there’s something godly about what conservatism contributes to society.
Thomas thinks progressives are dooming America as a result of we received’t share in his delusion, jingoism and wannabe-white nationalism, and he’s spreading his right-wing propagandist gospel to the MAGA cult whereas the remainder of us watch the world burn to the whims of conservative morons.
Who does Thomas actually assume he’s fooling?
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