I have same values as you, I am getting confused why I see so much socialism is bad on HN, especially from US citizens, is there a confusion like they think socialism means everything is public property, so confusing it with some communism implementations.
I understand that fixing the corruption/lobby in current US system would help I am not sure it could be done without some socialist, for the people party/layws.
You're also right, in the end it's just a matter of definitions. Maybe if I don't care about paying a high amount of taxes (but I insist it should be a fair system) I will be called a socialist by some. And actually "fair" is also a nice debate starter.
On the other hand, saving a bank with taxpayers money is somehow often regarded as capitalistic. And somehow, creating almost all money as a dept of less wealthy people to more wealthy people, forcing said less wealthy people to pay rent to the more wealthy people for most of their lives is also called capitalistic. These are strange times. Perhaps all this is indeed only corrected with some true socialism :)
