This segment of What’s Ahead tells the real story of Thanksgiving, not the mythical one handed down to us.
The pilgrims originally set up a socialist, almost communist-like economic system for their nascent settlement. The results were disastrous. Hunger and destitution reigned.
Then the pilgrims made a radical change to free markets and private prosperity. Soon enough, shortages turned to abundance.
Years earlier, the Jamestown settlement in Virginia went through a similar experience.
Hopefully the hard-won wisdom of the Pilgrims won’t be forgotten as the Senate takes up Biden’s socialistic Build Back Better bill.
