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.
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?
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.
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.