Elena Kagan wrote her senior thesis on socialism

[ClarkUSA]

Source: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Elena Kagan
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2010/05/10/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-elena-kagan.html

MSNBC's Jonathan Alter said we should prepare for Republicans to accuse her of being a socialist during her confirmation hearing. They will also try to crucify her over these comments she made while she was also an undergraduate:

Kagan likes "real Democrats -- not closet Republicans...committed to liberal principles..."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x293096

[NJmaverick]

1. LOL! That's going to make more than a few right winger's heads explode

:evilgrin:

[YOY]

2. The real Socialism or the 'anything left of Limbaugh' definition?

n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Yes

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[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Dupe

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[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Dupe

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[ClarkUSA]

6. To be precise, she wrote about socialism in New York City from 1930-1933.

Is that "real" enough for you?

[YOY]

7. Yes and real enough for anyone. It's the proper definition.

n.t.

[NYC Liberal]

8. You can see here:

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34854

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?

“Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope

[activa8tr]

9. Sarah Palin with LOVE THIS!!!!

[readmoreoften]

10. That means nothing. Many right-wingers write theses on the move from Lenin to Stalin.

You can easily pull far right analyses from such a study. This OP is meaningless. If I write a thesis on fascism, does that mean I'm a sympathetic to fascists? Hardly.

[ClarkUSA]

11. How many of them have been SCOTUS nominees?

Blanket generalities rarely apply to specific cases.