The Real Thanksgiving Story

I know this is not a popular story, and a story that our great liberal education system has infiltrated the minds of youth for far too many years in an attempt to create social change.
However, I want to relay the real story, a story that is based on the true records and accounts that have been discovered and are on the record.
A story that reveals the first efforts that caused so much failure and resulted in the death of many of the early Pilgrims was, at its fundamental root, socialistic or even communistic in nature.

Read the story:

Did you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative?
William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept.

The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered serious losses. Starvation was imminent.

Bradford realized that the communal system encouraged and rewarded waste and laziness and inefficiency, and destroyed individual initiative. Desperate, he abolished it. He distributed private plots of land among the surviving Pilgrims, encouraging them to plant early and farm as individuals, not collectively.

The results: a bountiful early harvest that saved the colonies. After the harvest, the Pilgrims celebrated with a day of Thanksgiving -- on August 9th.

Unfortunately, William Bradford's diaries -- in which he recorded the failure of the collectivist system and the triumph of private enterprise -- were lost for many years. When Thanksgiving was later made a national holiday, the present November date was chosen. And the lesson the Pilgrims so painfully learned was, alas, not made a part of the holiday.

Happily, Bradford's diaries were later rediscovered. They're available today in paperback. They tell the real story of Thanksgiving -- how private property and individual initiative saved the Pilgrims.

And so we see the Indians had nothing to do with this story, nothing at all, it was a pure and simple change from a "spreading the wealth around" concept, those who worked hard had to share with those who did not work hard, all was in common,it created strife and hardship for all, to a system of free enterprise. When each person was allowed to own his own land and keep and sell the fruits of his individual labor, the colony was successful.

Let us learn a lesson, Let us not allow this new President to turn our country back into the same common state that caused so much failure and death in the past.

So Happy thanksgiving to all and to all a good feast