My Dad, A Roosevelt Democrat, Voted For Socialist Norman Thomas In '48 And Eisenhower In '52

Alan: The alternative - currently on the ascendant - is to end up with anti-Democratic plutocracy without ever knowing how it happened.

Norman Thomas

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thomas

Norman Thomas And Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/norman-thomas-and-sonia-maria-sotomayor.html

Norman Thomas is Newsweek journalist Evan Thomas' grandfather.

In 1966, Thomas was chosen by conservative editor William F. Buckley, Jr to be the first guest on Buckley's new television interview show, Firing Line.

It's about time a democratic socialist, ran for president. "Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is the first such effort by a democratic socialist since Norman Thomas waged the last of his six such campaigns on the Socialist Party ticket in 1948. ... Historically, the role of the two great American socialist standard-bearers Eugene Debs and Thomas, and such socialist members of Congress as Meyer London and Ronald Dellums, was to advance ideas that their progressive compatriots were sometimes able to enact — partially — years or decades later, or that later were transformed into common sense. ... The independent from Vermont is not likely, putting it mildly, to displace Hillary Clinton as the Democratic front-runner... but in the best tradition of Debs and Thomas, he is advancing ideas that Democrats, Clinton included, may in time embrace." The Washington Post