The 'technique' was and is being used in America by this method also:
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 ever knowing how it happened----
Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU
Ya think, Norman? Maybe for a little while, Norman . .
Norman hasn’t reckoned on Joe the Plumber, Joe the Hunter, Joe the Electrician, Joe the Carpenter, Joe the Welder, or Twinkie the Disgruntled . . .