It's a twisted ideology, but one can easily argue here that anything the government does is socialist, because it supplants a function that could be performed b

It's a twisted ideology, but one can easily argue here that anything the government does is socialist, because it supplants a function that could be performed by the private market, regardless of the market's willingness or effectiveness at solving the problem for a greater good of society. One good case is movie ratings: by rating films for age-appropriate audiences, the MPAA solves an issue that the government could do itself, but this way prevents unnecessary overreach. If a theater permits minors to see R rated films, it is barred from playing any films associated with the MPAA, which is pretty much all of them. The obviously bad version of this ideology is health care and health insurance, where free market incentives result in milking the state (taxpayers) while simultaneously providing a poorer quality of service at an inflated cost because health cannot be bargained with. I don't agree with the results of the American mindset but in a way it still makes sense, just by a very narrow and cold interpretation.