The Democratic Party seems to be obsessed with race, and it’s true when it comes to racial quotas in employee hirings and college admissions, although they prefer the euphemism “affirmative action.” I say “seems” because when it comes to judicial nominees or anything else in government, politics trumps race.

The Democrats and their media allies made the most unprincipled and vicious attacks on Clarence Thomas and Miguel Estrada, both of whom were of superior qualifications and never said anything as outrageous as Sotomayor. It’s somewhat ironic that liberals are quick to label principled opposition of Sotomayor as “racist”, when it is they who engage in unprincipled attacks against conservative minorities, including accusations of being ‘inauthentically’ black or Hispanic.

The Democrats blocked Miguel Estrada from the federal appeals court believing he was conservative and likely headed for the Supreme Court. So when the Democrats and the liberal media start swooning over the thought of the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice, what they really mean is the first liberal Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. Like the phonies that they are, it has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with ideology. There were no celebrations from the left when the Republicans nominated the first black Secretary of State and the first black female Secretary of State. Those firsts apparently don’t count.

Instead of Democrats and the media just admitting that they want liberal minorities appointed in government, they play these deceitful race games of feigning concern for minority advancement. While there was no respectable reason to oppose either Estrada or Thomas, there are good reasons to oppose Sotomayor and it has nothing to do with race. Based on her activist record and highly controversial statements that reveal a disrespect for the Constitution and role of the judiciary, she is clearly unqualified to sit on any court, yet alone the Supreme Court.

The Left, with its belief in socialism and other forms of utopianism, always fail because they reject the core truths of mankind. Conservatives understand that mankind can never achieve perfection on this earth, while modern liberals believe it can. The history of the last century has proved that when movements attempt to perfect mankind and its institutions, it always ends in catastrophe.

Socialism, fascism, Nazism, communism, etc. are all forms of collectivism that have some things in common. Among these are the ideas that the troubles that plague mankind are due to corrupt institutions and ineffective leaders; that if we only remade the institutions of society with the right leadership, we can achieve some kind of utopia. That criminals and the poor are a product of broken or outdated capitalistic systems. That a classless society in which all are equal is achievable. That religion is bad and science is all that is needed to explain everything. That the State should be all-powerful and essentially worshipped by the people. That the State should control the economy and redistribute the resources according to the elite who know better because of their ’superior’ education. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and others believed in this, though they had differing way as to how to achieve a socialist paradise. Regardless of the means taken, the end goal was always the same. Continue Reading