Justice Clarence of the U.S. Supreme Court is known as an icon of constitutional expertise.
He interprets the Constitution, in questions before the court, on what the law meant when it was written, not what someone “feels” like it should mean now. His Constitution does not conform to social or political ideologies.
And to that end he recently addressed progressivism.
In a speech in Austin, Texas, this week, he took just 30 seconds to destroy the political agenda.
He said, “Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government. It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with the Constitution premise on the transcendent origin of our rights.”
The Declaration of Independent, of course, confirms that people are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” That concept was so important to the Founders they placed it in the document’s second paragraph.
Then it specified those include “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Social media commented, “Thomas is being praised nationwide for dropping this TRUTH on leftism and ‘progressivism.'”
“You NAILED IT, Justice Thomas! This guy is the true GOAT.”
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His address in Austin was to note the 250th anniversary of the Declaration.
He also expressed concern over the “cynicism, rejection, hostility and animus” in the U.S., and perpetuated “by Americans,” especially “pragmatists” or self-described intellectuals.
“They recast themselves as institutionalists, pragmatists or thoughtful moderates, all as a way of justifying their failures to themselves, their consciences, and their country,” he said.
