Ever spent much time in Western Europe, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Japan, or Taiwan, or South Korea? They are ALL quite socialized...as is AMERICA.
That's the problem, guy - y'all hear the word "socialism", and all you can think of are visions of the USSR, as if the USSR was the very definition of socialism...and you're quite mistaken. YES, "Socialist" was part of the name of the USSR, but thinking that socialism is the same thing as communism is no different from looking at the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and thinking that North Korea is a democratic republic.
First, you need to get a grip on what socialism really is in the WEST. Our school system is socialized - and if you don't think it works well, try finding a nation where there's no public education, and let me know how well that worked out for the people. Our health care system for the poor and elder is socialized...and if you think that's a bad thing, try going somewhere where there's no such system of care for the poor and elderly, and let me know how well that's working out for the population. Hell, our active-duty military health care system - TriCare (which I happily use to this day) - is about as socialized as you're ever going to see!
I can go on, but you get the point.
And FYI, yeah, I've sent both my sons to college, I own a house, I run a business...and that's another one of the misconceptions of the Right - that we on the Left somehow don't pay taxes. Hell, we pay MORE taxes than y'all do! Don't believe me? Try looking at the list of states by median income, and you'll find that the states with the highest median income are almost all BLUE states...and the states with the lowest median income are almost all RED states. In fact, red states generally RECEIVE more in federal funding than they pay out in federal taxes, and blue states generally PAY more in federal taxes than they receive in federal funding.
Look at what states have the lowest standards of living, and the highest rates of poverty - they're almost all RED states! If we liberals and progressives were as terrible as you seem to believe, then the states we govern should be WORSE off, shouldn't they? But they're not.
But that's only a fact...and as we've seen by the rise of Trump, little things like facts and reality need not apply when it comes to the Right.