Wingnuts have many cherished Thanksgiving traditions, such as shoving stuffing up their asses, high-fiving themselves for fondly-imagined rhetorical victories over liberals ("Pass the gravy?" "Drop dead, pinko!"), and passing on bullshit tall tales about how the Pilgrims learned a Valuable Lesson about the Evils of Socialism.
Honestly, this is a hoary, hairy, ancient far-right chestnut:
It’s wrong to say that American was founded by capitalists. In fact, America was founded by socialists who had the humility to learn from their initial mistakes and embrace freedom. One of the earliest and arguably most historically significant North American colonies was Plymouth Colony, founded in 1620 in what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts. As I’ve outlined in greater detail here before (Lessons From a Capitalist Thanksgiving), the original colony had written into its charter a system of communal property and labor. As William Bradford recorded in his Of Plymouth Plantation, a people who had formerly been known for their virtue and hard work became lazy and unproductive. Resources were squandered, vegetables were allowed to rot on the ground and mass starvation was the result. And where there is starvation, there is plague. After 2 1/2 years, the leaders of the colony decided to abandon their socialist mandate and create a system which honored private property. The colony survived and thrived and the abundance which resulted was what was celebrated at that iconic Thanksgiving feast.
They serve up this gibberish every year like it's, I don't know, pasta carbonara or something equally dreadful and hobby-horsical.
The real fun though is with the cretin whom I have just quoted at length attempting to sound smart in his own comments. Get a load of this. This is funny.
Here he is challenged:
Which is not very clear -- but that's not the Fun. Here is the response:
Uh...
Jerry Bowyer doesn't know what the word "tendentiously" means, does he?