Evolution Not Revolution: How a Century of Small Concessions Transformed America (The Boiling Frog Series)

The frog doesn't notice the water getting hotter. Neither did most Americans.Over the past century, the United States has been transformed — not by revolution, but by a thousand small concessions. Each one seemed reasonable in isolation. Taken together, they have produced a government that confiscates your income before you receive it, controls education from kindergarten through graduate school, regulates what you may build on land you own, and has accumulated $36 trillion in debt funding programs that have made the poor more dependent, not less.Evolution Not Revolution names what has happened — and proves it with a century of documentation.Drawing on the original writings of Marx and Engels, the legislative record of Congress, and the actual text of the Democratic Party platform, James Anderson maps the systematic implementation of the Communist Manifesto's Ten Planks in America from 1900 to the present. Seven of the ten are now substantially complete. The implementation vehicle is not ideology — it is compassion, one program at a time.Inside:The New Deal, the Great Society, and the ACA — the three great leaps, by the numbersThe 16th Amendment, the Federal Reserve, and the administrative state — the infrastructure of controlThe Democratic Party Platform mapped plank-by-plank against the Communist ManifestoHow the welfare state destroyed Detroit, the Native American family, and the work ethic of the working poorThe fraud economy — what $500 billion per year in waste and abuse actually buysThe only exit: abolish the income tax, eliminate the progressive structure, restore constitutional limitsAnderson brings a systems engineer's discipline to the question every concerned American is asking: How did we get here? The answer is uncomfortable, documented, and urgent.The temperature is very high. The time for comfortable deliberation has passed. Read more