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Let’s give thanks — for not living under socialism
New York Post ^ | November 27, 2025 | John Stossel

Posted on 11/28/2025 6:16:11 PM PST by TBP

Americans should know we already gave socialism a chance.

The only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving with lots of food is because the Pilgrims learned (the hard way) that socialism doesn’t work.

When they came to America, they first tried sharing land. Gov. William Bradford decreed that each family would get an equal share of food, no matter how much they worked.

The results were disastrous.

Few Pilgrims worked hard, claiming “weakness and inability,” wrote Bradford. “Much was stolen.”

The same plan in Jamestown led to starvation, the death of half the population, even cannibalism.

Learning from their mistakes, the Pilgrims tried a different approach: “Every family was assigned a parcel of land,” wrote Bradford. Then, he noted, Pilgrims “went willingly into the field.”

That’s capitalism.

Soon, there was an abundance of food. So much that the Pilgrims and Natives could celebrate Thanksgiving together.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: givethanks; jamestown; notjamestown; pilgrims; plymouth; socialism
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The real story is the Pilgrims finding out first hand that socialism doesn't work and capitalism does.
1 posted on 11/28/2025 6:16:11 PM PST by TBP
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To: TBP

Governor Bradford’s journal is quite educational.

The free audio version of it is also well done and worth listening to.


2 posted on 11/28/2025 6:52:40 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: TBP

“the Pilgrims learned (the hard way) that socialism doesn’t work”

Want to bet Zohan doesn’t know anything about the Pilgrims after they settled in the New World?


3 posted on 11/28/2025 7:01:32 PM PST by simpson96
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To: TBP
There are a Hell of a lot of people today in the United States of America who want to live under Socialism. They vote Democrat and support Socialistic causes. There is a shit pot full of them. Each year the high schools graduate a class of them. And the colleges and universities graduate a class of them. The aim and goal of each class is to destroy The United States of America.
4 posted on 11/28/2025 7:39:57 PM PST by sport
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To: TBP

Inherent in all socialists is their desire to ignore how socialism never works where its tried, and then their universal excuse of “they didnt do it right, but we will”


5 posted on 11/28/2025 7:53:31 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: simpson96
Want to bet Zohan doesn’t know anything about the Pilgrims after they settled in the New World?


6 posted on 11/28/2025 7:56:57 PM PST by MacNaughton
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