To be fair, leftists have been defining socialism as things like Police Protection and Fire. Roads. Etc.How about you define “socialism “. Cause cons seem to think socialism = “things I don’t like”.
So, when you have a bunch of people advocating for socialism without knowing the meaning, I think you may have some influence from those who know we will never accept real socialism until we all don't know what the fuck it means anymore.
Socialism is exclusive government ownership or control of the means of production. Communism is pretty much the same thing, but under the incredible delusion that such a system can work without a government enforcer.
What if I told you it can, and it does, and it's been already doing so for five hundred years?
Case in point: the Hutterites. A culture of religious-based "colonies" (their word for 'commune') where all the land, machinery, buildings, resources such as cattle etc, are owned collectively by the colony, where no one has individual possessions beyond their personal clothing, where meals are taken in a community building together, where everyone does whatever work needs to be done, functioning completely self-sufficiently on their own with no government intervention, including flatly refusing to ever serve in any war for anybody, ever. A colony that finds its neighbors jealous because the colony can grow and produce far more efficiently than the individuals who run their ranches and farms as a family unit. A culture that, living this way for five hundred years after the biblical depictions in the Book of Acts, has had in that entire time span one murder and two suicides. In five hundred years.