Mark Alexander: Income Redistribution Day 2005: "FDR set the stage for the entrapment of future generations by the welfare state and the incremental shift from individual freedom to dependence on the state. Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev said of Roosevelt's 'New Deal' paradigm shift, 'We can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.' Echoing that sentiment was perennial Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas -- the grandfather, incidentally, of Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas: 'The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.'"