You can't spell sociaist without the CIA

Perhaps you’ve seen this email floating around. I found nothing in my search to discredit the quote of Norman Mattoon Thomas, so here is the email.

Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968 and some of us are old enough to remember him running for President) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

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 Democratic Party has adopted our platform."


During the Eisenhower administration Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev said this to US Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson.

“You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands."


The drips and drabs of socialism have been leaking out for years. Now I’m afraid this latest stimulus program will open the floodgate to the United Socialist States of America. Without a shot fired we’ve surrendered. This is not President Obama’s fault; this is the government he and apparently all who voted for him wanted.

George Bush never vetoed a big spending bill so I’ll throw him under the bus and take my pound of flesh. Why Bush wasn’t the liberals golden boy, I’ll never know. The last conservative to live at the White House was Ronald Reagan. Since the Gipper, every President has taken up where FDR left off by adopting one socialist program after another. The fear, I guess, is that someone might actually fail in this land of opportunity. Well, guess what, it’s okay to fail. Failure is our compass, which directs us to success. Failure allows us to dream, failure ignites creativity, and most importantly failure teaches us lessons like humility and redemption. This is something the pinheads in Washington will never understand.

The more the government intervenes, the less we feel responsible for ourselves. The byproduct from this takes away our incentive, hard work, and reward.

Speaking of reward, this is another load of crap politicians like to spew. They’ve managed to make profit a dirty word. You hear President Obama separate the classes with great skill. He rips the rich by blaming them for your misfortune. It’s not your fault; it’s the CEO with his private jet and chauffeured driven limousine. (Daschle? Huh) It’s just not fair that the boss makes more money than you.

Failure and class envy are the two components, which breeds socialism. Throw in a willing congress and President who cut his teeth on leftist ideology what did you expect to happen?

Predictions from the past are here. We’ve slowly and deliberately squeezed our founding fathers principles into socialism and just like toothpaste it cannot be put back into the tube.