I'm not American, but the Democratic party self-describes as social-liberal.

Of course people can agree or disagree with the ideology, but only you here seem to have attached stigma to the word.

(Though the same could have been said for 'fascist', which certainly now has widespread stigma attached, and most proponents have stopped self-describing as such.)

> I'm not American, but the Democratic party self-describes as social-liberal.

Social-liberal isn't socialist. I live in a liberal-social democracy, but very few workers own the means of production here.

> but only you here seem to have attached stigma to the word.

American society as a whole has attached a stigma to it. Claiming otherwise is either disingenuous or ignorant, I'll let you take your pick as you listen to the dulcet tones of Ronald Reagan disclaiming the dangers of socialised medicine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrlDlrLDSQ

edit: self-avowed socialists

Further up in the thread he said he wanted to live in the USA because it’s a Free Country too, so I’m assuming he’s not being entirely serious.