The following quotes were cited in a recent American Thinker article called Why Do We Call Them ‘Democrats’? by Lance Fairchok. The article makes the argument that socialists never stop trying impose their ideology on their country. They just need to dress it up in other ways like “Democrat,” “progressive,” etc., so that they don’t realized that they are ever so slowly slipping into an inescapable government-controlled life.
Don’t believe it? Read it and weep:
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, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948 [and grandfather of current Newsweek editor-at-large Evan Thomas]
Should the people of the United States own refineries? Maybe so. Frankly, I think that’s a good idea. Then we could control the amount of refined product much more capably that gets out on the market...
— Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Press Conference with Democratic leadership, June 18, 2008
Don’t get fooled by that socialist rhetoric. By “the people,” Hinchey means the government, which purports to represent the people taking over an industry that should rightfully and constitutionally by owned by citizens who created them, i.e., according to the capitalist system. Hinchey the socialist can’t have that. If Hinchey had his way, oil refineries would be no more owned by “the people,” than The People’s Republic of China is owned by “the people.”
Next abomination:
This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, uh ... would be about ... basically taking over and the government running all of your companies.
— Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), May 22, 2008
These statements of government control by power-hungery “we-know-better-than-you” socialists like Hinchey and Waters should make every American’s blood run cold. That we have such ideologues in high political positions is enough to make one lose hope for her country.
How about a bit of conservative wisdom to calm the nerves:
No greater challenge faces our society today than ensuring that each one of us can maintain his dignity and his identity in an increasingly complex, centralized society.
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, galloping inflation, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.
— Ronald Reagan, Conservative Political Action Conference, Feb. 6, 1977.
Blessed words. I only pray that one day we may see another Reagan conservative running for high office soon in our lifetime. For with Pelosi and Reid having made an utter circus out of Congress and the most left-wing Senator Barack Obama knocking on the door to the Oval Office, this could very well be the beginning of the end.
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