> Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Federal housing assistance and anti-poverty programs, SNAP etc. they all seem like socialism Well, they're not – "welfare

> Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Federal housing assistance and anti-poverty programs, SNAP etc. they all seem like socialism Well, they're not – "welfare" would be a more fitting term. Besides, there is no socialism in Western Europe. There are social market economies, like in Germany, but they are very far away from actual socialism.