Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) 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.”

England’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said, “The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

“I’ve been thinking deeply about those famously prophetic words spoken by America’s premier socialist thinker and leader. They didn’t resonate in the 1940s when Franklin Roosevelt, in the name of ending the Depression, exceeded all constitutional authority by approving new federal assistance programs. They seemed a bit far-fetched to most of us in the 1960s when Lyndon Johnson vastly expanded the welfare state in his failed bid to end poverty in America. They still didn’t connect in the 1970s when Richard Nixon, in a bid to ingratiate himself with Democrats in Congress and stave off an impeachment, greatly increased spending on wealth-redistribution schemes. And by the 1980s, with Ronald Reagan in power, it seemed this 40-year trend had finally been reversed.”

And now with Barack Obama as president, who was recorded as the most liberal senator in his one term in the senate, “it appears Norman Thomas was right all along. Americans will, indeed, embrace every fragment of the socialist program in the name of liberalism.”  With the latest ridiculous “economic stimulous” bill, which is not only the single largest transfer of power to the federal government in American history but also creates an unimaginable deficit to be left for our children and grandchildren to burden, the acceptance has now begun. Many Americans are either complacent or are actually embracing this radical government take-over. “They are not asked by the press to show the American people even one successful program government has run. Yet the American people seem ready to put the lives of their children and grandchildren in the hands of Washington bureaucrats.”

“Americans may simply be too far gone spiritually, morally and intellectually to reject the temptations of socialism. Socialism is antithetical to human nature, yet it has great appeal to the human mind. It’s one of the great lies of all time – similar to the one told by the deceiver in the Garden of Eden. You can be like God! You can have it all right here on Earth. You can live in utopia, and you don’t have to obey the laws of the universe to achieve it.That’s the essence of socialism. And it is finally seducing America as it has seduced much of the rest of the world over the last century.Unfortunately, Americans don’t even have a party representing clear, unequivocal opposition to socialism. The Republicans dare not even speak its name. John McCain [admitted] publicly he doesn’t know much or care much about economics.

And so, Americans don’t even have a reason or a mechanism to say no to the socialism that is coming to their country under the guise of liberalism – just the way Norman Thomas predicted it would come.”

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