re: #4 SteveDutch

They had some loafers who were told that if they didn’t pitch in, they wouldn’t eat. And they gave up quickly on communal living for that reason.

I was listening to Michael Medved just now as I was coming home from Thanksgiving dinner with some friends and he was reading a bunch of stuff that was making this argument, and he tried to turn it into some sort of proof that the Pilgrims saw the evils of socialism early on, and they turned away from things like commonwealths (his word, not mine) because they were collectivist, and therefore evil and bad and wrong.

If I hadn’t been in someone else’s car and with friends, I would have started ranting and raving about this idiocy. I decided to be the better woman and not spoil the holiday mood. =P