| "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name Liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until America will one day be a Socialist nation without knowing how it happened."
-Norman Thomas, 6-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party who retired from politics when Democrat Franklin Roosevelt ran on the same platform and won.
---There is a quote that goes something like this: "If you are not liberal when you are 20 you have no heart; if you're not conservative by the time you are 30 you have no brains."---
From that quote I have adapted my own: "I was liberal, but then I grew up."
These quotes pretty much explain why I have changed my political leaning. Although, I still can't bring myself to join a political party. |