I deny your claim about socialism Moloch. I'm a bit sad, I thought you were an intelligent lad :-/
No worries, I was raised in America too... I fully understand how the American education system demonizes that word... it's not your fault
Not sure I understand. You mean we don't have the same definition of socialism or that you are aware that socialism is a good principle but that can be misused of course (ike any political tool)?
In America... we had this little thing called the cold war... we hated Russia and China... we slandered the words Socialism and Communism in an effort to make Americans reject this system without ever doing a shred of research about them
It's the very reason we call America a Democracy... America is a Republic, but we can't call it a Republic... because China... China is the people's Republic of China... we can't associate Democracy with Socialism...
There are plenty of successful socialist countries in Europe... Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc... they do quite well with socialism, and have the highest ratings for health and well-being of any country on the planet!
You can always find good and bad examples for any system of governance... You can't bring up some, "evil socialist country", but ignore all the good ones...