It's time to push back against the fear porn

[The Wizard]

11. All government jobs are a form of socialism.

Police, fire, military, roads, bridges are taxpayer funded because it's the most beneficial to society in general. It's the reason we have paved roads and garbage collection and public education.
I'm a Boomer, and when I hear other Boomers railing against socialism I tell them to return every cent they got from Social Security.
When LBJ was pushing for Medicare he was wont to say, "Just because you were born poor doesn't mean you have to die poor."
Unfettered capitalism becomes predatory, and left to its own devices destroys itself like sharks on a feeding frenzy eating each other until there's only one left.