[calcowgirl]

I just happened upon this quote I had filed away and thought it was appropriate for this thread.

"The battle will be lost, not when freedom of speech is finally taken away,
but when Americans become so ‘adjusted or conditioned’ to getting along
with the ‘group’ that when they finally see the threat, they say,
‘I can’t afford to be controversial.'"

--Gus Hall, former USA Communist Party Chief

[nicmarlo]

That quote goes well with the following, too:

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of
liberalism conservatism 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
~ 1936 presidential candidate on the Socialist ticket

[FReepapalooza]

“appropriate”

More than appropriate. It sums up these dunderheads who say they’ll hold their nose and vote (R) anyway.