The Socialist Party candidate for President of the US , Norman Thomas , said this in a 1944 speech: " The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party . The Democrat Party has adopted our platform."
This guy was early, but he knew of what he spoke. Welcome to Socialist Amerika!
This quotation is a hoax.
ReplyDeleteSnopes is still listing it as "undetermined". http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/socialism.asp
ReplyDeleteI appreciate it is VERY hard to prove a negative. We all know that not finding WMD isn't proof that there wasn't any, so I'll try to follow the same rules of evidence as my friends on the left here. ;-)
Thanks! By the way, I write as a supporter of regime change in Iraq, a cause Norman Thomas would probably also have supported.
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