1862 when ppl warned that the Homestead Act was creeping socialism.
1906 when the FDA was creeping socialism
1935 when Social Security was creeping socialism
1960s when Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, and fluoride were creeping socialism
2010 when the ACA was creeping socialism.
1906 when the FDA was creeping socialism
1935 when Social Security was creeping socialism
1960s when Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, and fluoride were creeping socialism
2010 when the ACA was creeping socialism.
We’ve always been at war with creeping socialism.
Here's a great article by @LarryGlickman providing more evidence for the point that virtually every piece of progressive legislation proposed since the 1930s has been attacked as "creeping socialism." dissentmagazine.org/online_article…
@LarryGlickman Here's an 1860 cartoon suggesting that people should panic because "crazy Abe Lincoln" and his extremist supporters might take over the White House. 
@LarryGlickman A list of things a Lincoln presidency would surely unleash on America: sexual immorality, radical feminism, criminal immigrants, godless socialism, and unhinged advocates of racial justice.
@LarryGlickman Here's a cartoon from the 1790s claiming that Thomas Paine's ideas would unleash many of the same horrors on the world.
@LarryGlickman Live look in to Thomas Paine, in 1794, trampling under foot Loyalty, Religion, Prosperity, Morality, Obedience to the laws, Personal Security, and your inheritance.
@LarryGlickman Live look in to Thomas Paine oozing equality of property, equality madness, cruelty, treason, atheism, famine, idleness, and misery from his pores.
