Col Rouge,

>>Strange how all innovation, invention and development is the product of individual “imagination”.<<

Who said anything about innovation, invention and development having anything to do with imagination? Other than you, that is. Speaking of straw men, that's what this latest argument of yours is yet another example of.

Imagination is exactly that, imagination. To get solutions to problems, we need the people who can deliver - exactly the sorts of people in your political hemisphere, generally speaking. So, why don't you take umbrage at them instead for the fact that imagination does not translate into reality? Or is it a case that people on your side do not have an imagination at all? Maybe they just sit there and wallow in their all-pervasive greatness, like you seem to. I agree that socialists have no idea how to do some things (they'd probably privately agree too), but sometimes they have no choice but to have a go themselves - after all, nature abhors a vacuum (BTW, it takes two to create a vacuum).

The pool of people you call socialists effectively act as the universal conscience of society as well as draw attention to its weaknesses and imbalances. They do this through imaginings or any other method they can. In that context, don't they do something useful? Or are you just going to continue to indulge in your fetish of polarising the debate in your desire to maintain your pozzie at the top of the mountain?