Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” ~ Norman Thomas (1884-1968) six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of AmericaSource: 1948 - from an interview during the presidential campaign,[Ed. note: Norman Thomas and Gus Hall, the U.S. Communist PartyCandidate, both quit American politics, agreeing that the Republicanand Democratic parties had adopted every plank on theCommunist/Socialist and they no longer had an alternate party platformon which to run.]