Me: cruising the deserted highway at 2 AM on the GS listening to "Surfer Girl" (Beach Boys), then pulling over to eat freshly baked chocolate chip cookies stowed in the tank bag.

Them: "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 ever knowing how it happened."
--Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU.