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Rush Limbaugh’s True Story of Thanksgiving
December 13, 2024||
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Rush Limbaugh’s True Story of Thanksgiving
Rush Limbaugh’s annual telling of the Pilgrim’s Thanksgiving became a famous bit of his work, due to the underlying capitalistic values, and his “I told you so” correction of the conventional narrative of the holiday’s origins.
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“The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So, what did Bradford’s community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking” capitalism, “the principle of private property,” all the way back in the 1600s. It was incredible. “Every family was assigned its own plot of land,” and they could do with it whatever they wanted to do.”
– Rush Limbaugh