What I meant, Bobert, is that "socialism" is a word that is cynically used in the USA to scare people...and they are scared because they don't understand what socialism is in the first place.

They are apparently blind to the fact that without socialist institutions in place already they wouldn't have a police force, a fire department, an armed forces, public libraries, courts, public parks, public hospitals, public transit, and publicly funded facilities of all kinds....not to mention, a government!

They have no idea what they're hearing about when they hear the word "socialism", and they are being deliberately misled by those who use that word to scare people into opposing any progressive legislation.

I know of no other country where the word "socialism" is commonly used to terrorize ill-informed people into opposing their own interests. Only in the USA.