That's a clearly inaccurate division. Next you'll point out that the nazis in Germany had socialist in their official party name so therefore socialism is obviously bad.

There are plenty of successful European countries with higher taxes than us and much better social safety nets. Crazy countries where bankruptcy isn't one car accident away. But it is this way in the US: "if you get sick or hurt in say a car crash and can't work for a year or two you'll be bankrupt" and maybe dead when your healthcare runs out from your leaving your job. That doesn't make sense.

Don’t confuse socialism as practiced in the USSR and its satellites with the “democratic socialism” practiced in Scandinavia, just because they have some of the same words in their name.

what exactly make you think american 'socialism' takes scandinalian form? who is going to drive that change? current 'democrat' leadership is disgusting, brainless, corrupted, to say the least, and they aren't going anywhere unless true liberals (in its original meaning) get rid of them first.

your comments are just trolling and not adding to the conversation. Perhaps you could give specific problems and behaviors of the leadership with problems. Who are these people,what did they do that was brainless and corrupt.