He said that the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans.

Clarence Thomas on Wednesday delivered a televised broadside against progressivism, a political philosophy he described as an existential threat to America and the principles that founded it 250 years ago.

“Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government,” Thomas said in a speech at the University of Texas Austin Law School pegged to the nation’s upcoming milestone birthday.

A spirit of “cynicism, rejection, hostility and animus” toward America – by Americans – has taken hold, Thomas said in remarks carried live on CSPAN.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 days ago

    Man who 100% benefitted from progressive policies in his youth seeks to pull ladderup behind him. Tale as old as time. Hell, he said he used a Carnegie library before desegregation.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    20·
    7 days ago

    Biden ran the Senate judiciary committee for approving Thomas and buried Anita hills testimony on Thomas’s sexual harassment, after promising Hill time to speak. Yet another win for the centrists that keeps on giving all these years later. That fiasco alone should have sunk that aipac idiot’s chances at the vp and then president spots. And it is one of innumerable outright idiotic fuckups of Biden’s career.

    This right here, this Clarence Thomas BS, is the inevitable result of centrists philosophies.

  • A_Drusas@lemmy.world
    13·
    7 days ago

    If he doesn’t understand the definition of “progressive”, he is not mentally competent to be a judge at any level.

  • j_elgato@leminal.spaceEnglish
    12·
    7 days ago

    Fucking, 30 years of bad headlines from this one POS.

    WHERE THE HELL ARE THE:

    term limits/ votes of no confidence/ calls for impeachment/ efforts to reform the Judicial/ … The adults?

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      I was ranting about this the other day, I’m afraid that most people, at least most Americans, are not good enough at standing up to authority for America to fundamentally work as it is supposed to. Some jobs, especially in politics and law, inherently require a pathological John Adams-like willingness to be a problem for the whole ship to stay afloat.

    • tristynalxander@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I don’t really know about term limits. Maybe people should be forced to take a break now and then no more than two consecutive terms in a row and not more than a third of the terms over some period of time just to prevent entrenchment, but I don’t want to stop people from voting for whoever they want to vote for generally.

      I care about term lengths far more. Life terms? Yeah, no. To me, 6-8 years would a lot more reasonable maybe ten years if you really believe it’d be too unstable otherwise, but these lifetime appointments are insane. Honestly, I’m surprised terms that long don’t make them assassination targets. We should shorten their terms to prevent them from becoming targets for people who target those with too much power.

  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
    5·
    6 days ago

    “America is the land of opportunity for one thing and one thing only: capital. Its why we believe in Capitalism. Communism? No, Community is evil. Socialism? No, Socializing is evil. Progressivism? No, Progress is evil. Environmentalism? No, the Environment is evil. Welfare? No, Wellness is evil.”

  • EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    All of these right wingers are so fucking weird. Apparently, Thomas likes to talk about the porn he watches with other people.