There are hundreds of millions of working class Latin Americans who do not share your loathing or your misunderstanding of socialism, Sawzaw, and they have a radically different understanding of it than you do. They see it as the establishment of basic human rights and the ending of USA-backed corporate-fascist dictatorships. Hundreds of thousands of them have died at the hands of CIA-trained death squads and USA-financed military police since the end of WWII.

And you know what they also believe in and have fought for all their lives? self-determination, individual aspiration and genuine community

It IS the USA and its CIA-backed dictators which have deprived them of those 3 things, along with, in many cases, their lives.

You have no idea what socialism is in a democracy, and apparently no idea that it IS founded upon the very concept OF community, individual aspiration, and self-determination....whereas the Neo-fascist message that consistently comes from the USA is, in fact, the destruction of traditional communities all over the place, and their replacement with foreign-owned corporate monopolies and police states.

Republicans don't know that. Neither do most Democrats. They are mostly unaware of it, because their mass media and their schools and their leaders don't tell them about it.