Are we headed towards socialism?
If there is only one thing that you the reader get from the pages and posts here on Uncommon History, let it be that famous and familiar quote:
Read it again and let it sink in, then read it again, and again, and again! I have made several direct links to the forces and powers pushing us towards socialism, but nothing I have said or heard comes close to the clear and concise commentary given by Charles Stanley on July 4, 2010.
“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.” -Norman Thomas, 1948 , 6 time candidate for the Socialist party of America.
Norman Thomas and Gus Hall, the U.S. Communist Party Candidate, both quit American politics, agreeing that the Republican and Democratic parties had adopted every plank on the Communist/Socialist and they no longer had an alternate party platform on which to run