{"id":8032,"date":"2026-06-28T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:52:13","slug":"socialism-is-the-gateway-drug-t0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8032","title":{"rendered":"SOCIALISM IS THE GATEWAY DRUG T0 . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Socialism is the gateway drug to communism to tyranny and dictatorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On their way up to power, socialists promise the moon with free stuff, and people &#8216;buy it&#8217; and vote them into office.<br>Dictators are often voted into power, but they are never voted out of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drug dealers gain new customers by offering free stuff at first, and people &#8216;buy it&#8217; and so vote themselves into the web.<br>However inviting it may appear at first, the cruel reality quickly gets brutal, with no escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free is not forever, and sometimes not for very long at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human nature never changes, never learns, responding to promises and lies and offers too good to be true&#8212;from the devil in the Garden of Eden, to Hitler in Germany, to Newsom in California and Mamdani in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will soon see how long before hollow promises turn to cruel and brutal force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America has only one recourse&#8212;turn back to our founding and reclaim our dependence on God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is impossible to rightly govern this nation without God and the Bible.&#8221;<br>&#8212;&#8211;George Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The United States Constitution will work only for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other.&#8221;<br>&#8212;&#8211;John Adams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialism is the gateway drug to communism to tyranny and dictatorship. On their way up to power, socialists promise the moon with free stuff, and people &#8216;buy it&#8217; and vote them into office.Dictators are often voted into power, but they are never voted out of power. Drug dealers gain new customers by offering free stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8047,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions\/8047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}