Newt & Civic society

In the eighteenth century, governments throughout the world suppressed civic groups as threats to their power. But America was different from the start. As historian Gordon Wood observes, after the American Revolution “newly independent American men and women came together to form hundreds and thousands of new voluntary associations expressive of a wide array of benevolent goals,” including “mechanics societies … orphans’ asylums … societies for the promotion of industry, indeed societies for just about anything and everything that was good and humanitarian.” Wood further notes, “There was nothing in the Western world quite like these hundreds of thousands of people assembling annually in their different voluntary associations and debating about everything.


~ Newt Gingrich - A Nation like no Other


My note- another example of why Socialism is anti-American.