The White House released this picture of Sotomayor in her Princeton yearbook quoting a leading socialist.
I am not a champion of lost causes, but of causes not yet won.
-Norman Thomas
Norman Thomas is also quoted as saying, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
It just keeps getting worse and worse with this nominee. Incredibly, the Democrats still deny Obama is a socialist, but then his own nominee quotes a socialist in her yearbook. Obama would not choose her if she did not share his beliefs.
Will Republicans point out that quotes from socialists are not just un-American, but totally inappropriate for American judges and justices? Will they have the strength and courage to filibuster Sotomayor?
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Why is fighting for equality and fraternity -the goals of socialism- un-american?
Conservative bigotry of the ‘guns-babies-jesus’ variety is un-american!
Because socialist ‘equality and fraternity’ are based on the French Revolution, not principles of the American Revolution. Socialism embodies concepts that are the antithesis of American liberty, which is based on individual liberties, not collective.
The American revolutionaries believed in ideals such as free will, truth, reason and natural rights. They were against government with unlimited powers because of the corrupting influence of too much power in too few hands. Government, while a necessary evil, must be kept small and in check. They believed that a people needed to be virtuous and moral in order to maintain a free republican form of government.
By contrast, the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau were the foundation of the French Revolution. Rousseau believed that human nature is essentially good and that society corrupts people. Nature has no inherent laws or constraints. He emphasized feelings, passion and instinct over reason. Rousseau thought mankind could be just and good without virtue or effort. Rousseau was against private property and believed that most material possessions should be state controlled. He believed the individual does not matter, only the idea of a general will (not necessarily the same as a majority). This ‘general will’ is a political organism with a life of its own, to direct the people by force if necessary. Rousseau required people to surrender their individual rights to a collective body.
This shows the etiological differences between modern liberals and conservatives in America. It explains why liberals have contempt for America’s founding principles, and identify with the French Revolution. In essence, the American Left chose the wrong revolution. They rejected the American experiment in liberty and individualism, and chose Rousseau’s fantasy of social equality by force of government.
The goals of socialism may be on paper ‘equality’ and ‘fraternity’, but in practice it always turns out to be a form of totalitarianism. What socialism means in practice can be found in the history of the old Soviet Union and Nazi Germany – brutally oppressive governments combined with death and destruction on a massive scale. So much for that glorious workers’ paradise.
It wasn’t socialistic policies or ideas that made America the greatest nation on earth. Therefore, your claim that conservatives in America are somehow “un-american” shows you fundamentally do not understand this country’s history and what it is supposed to be about. I’m sure you can thank your Marxist professors for shaping your beliefs.