1 post from August 2009

Listen to the speaker, especially to his opening!

“Ah, Wally, my family came over here, one side of my family, on the Mayflower. The first winter was rough. But they didn’t have their hands out looking for somebody to support them.”

Oh and then the applause.

The speaker is correct that one side of his family didn’t have their hands out looking for someone to support them that first winter. And by that I mean they didn’t have to look because they knew who was supporting them. For its first two-and-a-half years, the economy of Plymouth Plantation took the form of a communal system. There was neither private property nor division of labor. Food was grown for the town and distributed equally.

That’s right. Those Mayflower folk that this speaker thinks would be opposed to socialist health insurance, doesn’t seem to realize that they weren’t just your garden variety socialists. No, sir! They were full-blown communists, living in communal homes. There was no need to look for someone to support you because he lived in your communal home. So if this speaker is suggesting we follow the roots of his Mayflower ancestor, he’s suggesting we all go red!

Congratulations, you Teabagger, you! You’ve made the opposite point that you wanted!