DG, you really know better!(I hope)! This "soschulism" crap is just an emotional trigger word that gets the uneducated dullards all panty wadded up. Its been a Rethuglican tactic for decades now. Do you think that the Scandanavian nations are under a despotic, crushing regime? No, they practice 'democratic socialism' that the people vote on.It has NOTHING to do with Communism or fascism!
Labels(words) often conjure up images(sterotypes)the belie the true meaning and is used a great deal by the right to get the peasants all outraged!
It can lead to terrible WITCH HUNTS like Mccarhyism, and Reagan's Screen Actors Guild fiasco, and Nixon's HUAC persecuting innocent people all for dirty political purposes!
It is SO DIVISIVE it hardly bears mentioning!