Fred,
A good place for Modern American Conservatives, i.e.: Classic American Liberals (Thomas Jefferson), to start is with our own families and our neighbors. We must educate those around us that Marxist Socialism is the opposite of our Declaration of Independence.

“All men are created equal…”
* Karl Marx: Government-forced economic equality
* Thomas Jefferson: Equality before the law

This is so important – it is so very important. We must educate our children and our neighbors that Karl Marx turned the American understanding of human equality upside down. Americans have always instinctively loved fair competition, i.e.: competition under equal rules (all men under equal application of law). If you are running faster than me in a race the Marxist idea is for me to somehow trip you up so that there can be – you guessed it – equality of outcome – not equality of opportunity. Or another spin on the Marxist idea is to have inequality of the rules (unequal application of law among men) so that the slower runner gets a head-start before the gun. Marxist equality is un-American and is completely dependent on unequal rules aiming for the desired result of equal outcome – a result which destroys human liberty and the human desire for creativity and excellence, i.e.: our God-given desire to creatively pursue happiness. If we can’t articulate this understanding of American Equality vs. Marxist/Socialist Equality, then what the hell; we are just too stupid or lazy, and we don’t deserve our God-given human liberty and creative pursuit of happiness, nor our real God-given human equality. Thomas Jefferson would have no difficulty with Karl Marx.

“They are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…”

* Karl Marx: Bullshit! There is no god, and there are no unalienable human rights.
* Thomas Jefferson: I declare war on you – you God-damned tyrant!

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson