64 percent say Democratic Party supports socialism, says poll

[Blackjackdavey]

79. This is silly

You are (intentionally) conflating communism and socialism and pretending capitalism is a social life rather than an economic system. Furthermore, dictionaries aren't instruction manuals and we get to make our own system -- preferably one that is uniquely American. Socialism is simply a system by which everyone gets enough before anyone else gets more so yes, taxes paid by those with means go into a system that provides enough to survive to those without means. Such a system does not preclude free enterprise nor should it. In fact, such a system would support the expansion of free enterprise because it would generate a basic income for people who will spend the money locally rather than on the French Riviera. That is before we even get into reducing the social cost associated with inaccessible preventative medicine, homelessness and childhood poverty and carbon based economies. We can call it something else if you are truly hung up on the word but getting back to our Thanksgiving analogy, it really seems as though the resistance to an American socialist system has much more to do with the fact that many people are, shall we say, "picky" about who they want to invite over for Thanksgiving dinner.