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Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'.