The late conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh told the true story of Thanksgiving in November 2020 in his final annual rendition. Thanksgiving 2024 will mark the fourth year that Americans have left behind their beloved traditions, but many are still holding on to them and working to ensure that younger generations can live with peace of mind. Find out what really happened and what Thanksgiving actually celebrates.
limbo It was delivered During his final speech on November 24, 2020, during which he was battling advanced stage lung cancer, he announced that the “True Story of Thanksgiving'' had gone viral. He pointed out that there was.
“And I couldn't be happier. The bottom line: It's spreading. Before you read the text, let's cut to the chase here. The real story of Thanksgiving is the early days when the Pilgrims first arrived at Plymouth Rock. “Socialism failed,” Limbaugh said, setting the stage for the difficult conditions the Pilgrims faced after arriving in the New World, as documented. Written by William Bradford.
Limbaugh reminded his millions of listeners that the first winter was harsh and unforgiving, with half of them dying from “starvation, disease, and exposure to the elements.”
“Right now, we are getting closer to what you were taught in school, when spring has finally arrived, and by the way, writing this doesn't convey it enough. It's not like spring has finally arrived. It was survival. It was an act of survival that neither you nor I can relate to or understand,” he explained.
“American Special Forces can do that. A trained military man can understand what the Pilgrims are, but you and I don't. We've never experienced anything like that first winter in the New World. They survived it. Spring finally came. They met the Indians and Native Americans who were there. They showed them where the beavers were and they were able to skin them to make coats and things like that. “Some of you won't like it, but it happened,” he continued, explaining that despite Native American aid, prosperity was lacking.
“They had the Mayflower Compact. They had these laws and lived by them, but they had no prosperity. And I wonder why. Now, everyone, here we are. This is important to understand because this is where the modern American history lesson ends, as the Indians taught the Pilgrims how to eat, how to fish, how to skin beaver, and so on. Rush Limbaugh elaborated. You learn things that schools don't usually teach you.
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That's it. And it's a feel-good story. But that's not even close to the true story. As you know, Thanksgiving is actually described in some textbooks as a holiday where pilgrims give thanks to the Indians who saved their lives. It wasn't. As it happened, Thanksgiving was an expression of pious gratitude to God for the pilgrims, for their survival, and for all that Thanksgiving encompasses.
Now, here's the part I've left out. The original contract the Pilgrims made in Holland had a sponsor. They didn't have the money to make this trip themselves. They had sponsors. We had sales sponsors in London and the Netherlands. And these merchant sponsors demanded that everything the Pilgrims produced in the New World be deposited in a common store, a single bank, if you will. And each member of the Pilgrim community was entitled to one share.
That is, everyone had an equal share in everything that was in the bank. All the land they cleared, all the houses they built, belonged to that bank and belonged to the community as well. And they were going to be fair, so they were going to distribute it equally. So all the land they cultivated and all the houses they built belong to everyone, belong to the community, belong to the bank, belong to the cooperative store. No one owned anything. They were just sharing it equally. It was a commune.
The Pilgrims essentially founded a commune. A forerunner of the communes seen in California in the 60's and 70's. By the way, they even had their own organic vegetables. yes. Pilgrim is a pioneer of organic vegetables. Of course, what else could there be? At that time, there was nothing that was processed.
Now, William Bradford, who had become governor of the colony because he was a leader, realized that this was not going to work. This was costly, destructive, and just didn't work. It was collectivism. It was socialism. It didn't work. The first winter claimed many lives. Staff numbers have been significantly reduced. So William Bradford decided to take a bold action…
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…Bradford… threw it away and took a bold move. He allocated land to each family. Every family was given a plot of land. They could work and manage as they wished. If you just want to sit around, get fat, stupid, happy, and lazy, you can do that. If they wanted to develop it, if they wanted to grow corn, they could grow anything. If they wanted to build on it, they could do that. If you want to turn it into a quasi-business, you can do whatever you want.
He unleashed the power of the capitalist market. Long before Karl Marx was born, long before Karl Marx became a sperm cell in his father's dreams, the Pilgrims discovered and experimented with something that could only be called socialism, and it turned out that it didn't work. Ta. Now, it wasn't called that back then. But that's exactly what happened. Everyone was given an equal share. do you know what happened? No one did anything. There was no incentive. Nothing worked. Nothing happened.
“There was no prosperity. There was no creativity because there was no incentive,” Limbaugh said. “Bradford writes of failure: “For this community.'' [so far as it was] It turned out to create a lot of confusion and dissatisfaction…’ In other words, they weren’t happy. '[T]His community was found to have created much confusion and dissatisfaction, and delayed many jobs that would have brought them benefit and comfort. ”
“That's when they introduced what turned out to be capitalism. They didn't have a name for it, but when you loosen the incentives for individuals, you keep what you produce and sell what you don't need. , that's crazy. This isn't something someone taught me by self-experience. None of this is said to be derogatory to anyone. Don't get me wrong,” he continued, adding that the colonies “abandoned socialism and were essentially capitalist. After trying it, they experienced success. Rumors spread throughout the Old World that this great prosperity was meant to capture the New World. world. “
“So, guess what happened? The New World was full of new arrivals. The success and prosperity of Plymouth Settlement attracted more Europeans, later known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.' “The situation has begun,'' he continued.
Now, many of the pilgrims literally believed that God had sent Squanto to save them. And they, and the Pilgrims, believed they would never have survived or thrived without Squanto. And they experienced a tremendous harvest in 1621, and it was a large gathering that is taught in history books, where Native Indians and Pilgrims joined together for a large banquet. , and it is the foundational story of the Thanksgiving story taught in public schools.
“But again, that's not the real story of Thanksgiving. That's the textbook brand,” Limbaugh said. “It really happened, but it’s so much more than that.”
