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It's time to challenge the corporate shills, especially those who monopolize the airwaves, to a real debate on Socialism. As their presentations thus far have proven, to me at least, they haven't the faintest idea about which they spend so much time speaking and the debate can be easily won.

Ours are not radical ideas. The filibuster and the Electoral College are radical ideas. The idea that people believe the theatrics and boil their blood based upon those theatrics is a radical idea.

Ours are sane ideas. If nothing else, the Tea Party, a twisted and manipulated movement if there ever was one, has proven that constant messaging, repetition and passion are needed to convince people of an idea and Socialism is an idea whose time has come.

We need to turn things around quickly. We need to clean the unwarranted sullied reputation of Socialism. We need to show that greed and greed alone promotes the hatefully adverse reaction to that word. It is otherwise a word which holds promise for the American people and for the people around the world.

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Michael

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He is also a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's (more...)
 

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