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.
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Governor Bradford’s journal is quite educational.
The free audio version of it is also well done and worth listening to.
“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?
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”
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