Being I’m probably as dumb as the next person when it comes to the meaning of socialism as I just classified it as another political ideology or philosophy. So, I decided to look it up. I would wager folks my age equate socialism with the old USSR. As I stated before, I have no idea what the younger one’s associate socialism with. Below is the official dictionary definition.

Essential Meaning of socialism
: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies
Full Definition of socialism
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.