When an oath of office means nothing

Just a formality.......not an oath sworn before God.

Every government official swears an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States when they take office.  The president of the United States does this and so do the city council members in Seattle.  All throughout our republic we demand that our elected leaders swear an oath to uphold the constitution.  That is what we expect of them, isn't it?  That they obey and support the supreme law of the land.

So I have more than a little bit of anger and disbelief when an avowed Marxist/socialist takes office and swears that oath to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States.  Nobody who believes in the principles of Marxism can possibly uphold the Constitution of the United States.  The two are mutually incompatible.  You simply cannot get there from here.  Either you support the principles of individual liberty and limited government that are enshrined in the Constitution or you do not.  Marxism is the polar opposite of individual liberty and constrained, limited government.

If a Marxist swears an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, that person is lying.
Avowed Marxist, Socialist Alternative Party member and Seattle City Council Member (elect), Kshama Sawant, a will take the oath of office on January 1st, 2014.  Ms. Sawant will swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Charter of the City of Seattle.  I don't know about the Seattle city charter, but when she swears to uphold the Constitution of the United States she will be committing perjury.  She will be lying, under oath, to the citizens of Seattle.  This woman just called for Boeing, Amazon and Microsoft to be nationalized and the homes of Seattle's wealthy to be seized and given to the homeless.  This is not a minor difference in political philosophies or an issue of semantics.  This is a Marxist who has openly advocated actions that are unconstitutional.  How can she possibly swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States? 


Does this sound like somebody who will support the Constitution of the United States?

Class envy, class warfare, collectivism, anti-business, anti-capitalism, class identity..........Marxism, pure and simple.