Justice Clarence Thomas issues WARNING in rare address (youtube.com)
Fox. 'Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas warns that the rise of progressivism poses one of the greatest threats to America today.'
Cynicism, rejection, hostility, and animus toward the US and its ideals, the sentiment more common.
'Others with power and animus could treat us as unequal, but they lacked the divine power to make us so.'
Those truths were self-evident to most of the adults in our lives.
People all around claiming some righteous cause. Recast themselves as instututionalists, after they gain power and like all the things they now have which they never could have before, and facing their failures in moral decisions, they justify themselves this way. It's easier to do nothing than to do the right thing. America lacks people willing to do what it takes, to sacrifice popularity and comfort.
'We do not derive our rights from our government.' 'Our government derives its legitimacy and authority from our consent.'
'None of our rights come from the government. All of the government's authority comes from our consent.'
Government must not exceed the authority to which we have consented.
'Progressivism is retrogressive.'