My how times HAVEN’T changed. Creeping communism.
Indeed. To justify the failures on our watch, I submit that it's tough to beat a long term goal based upon a proven plan of attack:
"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, longtime U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate