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There are those that innately understand that socialism and individual liberty cannot coexist. Those people were not indoctrinated.

• JohnBooty 8y ago
  It's not a binary question. Anything public-use paid for by non-voluntary taxes is "socialism." Public roads, public schools, public defenders, public libraries, public parks, government-funded mail delivery, fire departments, laws that prevent your employer from mistreating and exploiting you, the police, near-universal public access to safe drinking water, etc... these are all socialism, and most of these ideas are also considered American as apple pie. If you're in favor of any of those institutions or ones like them, you support socialism to a degree. Successful countries balance some amount of socialism with a larger degree of free market capitalism. Too much of either is often disaster.