Hm. If the social policies that began being put in place during the FDR administration until today are not socialism, then you're going to have to convince just about every conservative politician, pundit, and blogger that they aren't...because doggone near every one of them have accused the social programs - including Social Security, Medicare, public schools, Obamacare, and every other part of our social safety net - of BEING socialism. Among the conservatives, it's only you who has said that they're not. So either you're right and ALL the other conservatives are wrong...or you're simply wrong.
YOUR problem, sir, is that
you personally have a perception of what socialism is and is not...and you simply haven't realized that just as there's more than one kind of republic, and there's more than one kind of democracy,
there's more than one kind of socialism...and what we in the first-world democracies have is closer to (
but certainly is not exactly) "
social democracy"...
...and they're the most successful governments - in terms of standards of living, freedom, and stability - in all human history. As I said before, you're arguing against success.
