On 9/11/1960, M. Stanton Evans and a group of conservative students adopted a one page resolution known as The Sharon Statement in honor of the place where it was written, the Buckley Family’s estate in Sharon, Connecticut. The Sharon Statement was “answered” nearly two years later by Tom Hayden and the Radical Left’s S.D.S. The Port Huron Statement is 40 pages of radical propaganda which reads like a Castro speech. Think that I am exaggerating or mischaracterizing it? Try reading it. The Federalist or Anti-Federalist Papers it is not.
Here is a typical example: The Economy
“American capitalism today advertises itself as the Welfare State. Many of us comfortably expect pensions, medical care, unemployment compensation, and other social services in our lifetimes. Even with one-fourth of our productive capacity unused, the majority of Americans are living in relative comfort -- although their nagging incentive to "keep up" makes them continually dissatisfied with their possessions. In many places, unrestrained bosses, uncontrolled machines, and sweatshop conditions have been reformed or abolished and suffering tremendously relieved. But in spite of the benign yet obscuring effects of the New Deal reforms and the reassuring phrases of government economists and politicians, the paradoxes and myths of the economy are sufficient to irritate our complacency and reveal to us some essential causes of the American malaise.
We live amidst a national celebration of economic prosperity while poverty and deprivation remain an unbreakable way of life for millions in the "affluent society", including many of our own generation. We hear glib reference to the "welfare state", "free enterprise", and "shareholder's democracy" while military defense is the main item of "public" spending and obvious oligopoly and other forms of minority rule defy real individual initiative or popular control. Work, too, is often unfulfilling and victimizing, accepted as a channel to status or plenty, if not a way to pay the bills, rarely as a means of understanding and controlling self and events. In work and leisure the individual is regulated as part of the system, a consuming unit, bombarded by hardsell soft-sell, lies and semi-true appeals and his basest drives. He is always told what he is supposed to enjoy while being told, too, that he is a "free" man because of "free enterprise."”
This is from the “Geithnerites” who are now running the U.S. economy. This is the sort of elitist “thinking” that has us at near Depression levels of unemployment and economic paralysis. Notice too, the stale clichés, the only thing that is missing is: “It’s all Bush’s Fault!”
Apparently, a metaphor used by Democrat John F. Kennedy, in his 1960 Inaugural Address, fell on deaf and defiant ears. When he said: “A rising tide lifts all boats”. This was in reference to his proposed income tax rate-cuts and its ensuing prosperity. What better milestone is there to show how far to the left the Democrat Party has moved in forty-eight years? Except, perhaps the dedication of Bill Ayer’s book “Prairie Fire” to Bobby Kennedy’s killer, Sirhan Sirhan? Is it any wonder that JFK was gunned down a few years later by another Marxist sympathizer?
The Port Huron Statement would have been confined to the dung heap of history but for two reasons: One is that the “voters” (One can barely use the word “citizen” in that state.) made Mr. Jane Fonda Hayden their State Representative from 1980 until 1992 and their State Senator from 1992 to 2000. Two and more relevant reason is that these are the old S.D.S, Weathermen and Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Danny Glover; who promoted the Obama presidential candidacy as “Progressives for Obama” (now Progressive America Rising). These are Obama’s puppeteers.
Contrast the typical S.D.S. rant with the Sharon Statement. Here in its entirety:
“The Sharon Statement - Adopted in conference at Sharon, Connecticut, on 11 September 1960.
In this time of moral and political crises, it is the responsibility of the youth of America to affirm certain eternal truths.
We, as young conservatives, believe:
That foremost among the transcendent values is the individual's use of his God-given free will, whence derives his right to be free from the restrictions of arbitrary force;
That liberty is indivisible, and that political freedom cannot long exist without economic freedom;
That the purpose of government is to protect those freedoms through the preservation of internal order, the provision of national defense, and the administration of justice;
That when government ventures beyond these rightful functions, it accumulates power, which tends to diminish order and liberty;
That the Constitution of the United States is the best arrangement yet devised for empowering government to fulfill its proper role, while restraining it from the concentration and abuse of power;
That the genius of the Constitution- the division of powers- is summed up in the clause that reserves primacy to the several states, or to the people, in those spheres not specifically delegated to the Federal government;
That the market economy, allocating resources by the free play of supply and demand, is the single economic system compatible with the requirements of personal freedom and constitutional government, and that it is at the same time the most productive supplier of human needs;
That when government interferes with the work of the market economy, it tends to reduce the moral and physical strength of the nation; that when it takes from one man to bestow on another, it diminishes the incentive of the first, the integrity of the second, and the moral autonomy of both;
That we will be free only so long as the national sovereignty of the United States is secure; that history shows periods of freedom are rare, and can exist only when free citizens concertedly defend their rights against all enemies;
That the forces of international Communism are, at present, the greatest single threat to these liberties;
That the United States should stress victory over, rather than coexistance with, this menace; and
That American foreign policy must be judged by this criterion: does it serve the just interests of the United States?”
Notice the straightforward clear uniquely American thinking and writing. The Sharon Statement, if it were written in 18th Century English, it could just as easily come from the pens of a James Madison, James Wilson or Robert Yates (Anti-Federalist Brutus).
Please remember the naked Marxism of the Port Huron Statement and he free market, Constitutional clarity of the Sharon Statement when you go to the polls on November 2nd.
Isn’t it time to stop and reverse the radical Left’s fifty year march to socialism?
The Sharon Statement:
Port Huron Statement – still available on Tom Hayden’s official website:
Progressives for Obama: 
