The USA's government is a representative democracy. The USA has borrowed very good policies that the political right-wing says is socialism to create Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP. Those are excellent ideas and Americans have benefited from them. These policies would be bad policies if they were not beneficial to Americans, but, they are and we all should be grateful for that fact.
In the USA legislation has to be passed with a majority of votes. I will remind those that fear socialism or democratic - socialism; the number of members of Congress that fall into those categories can be counted on one hand. They don't even have a caucus.
HOWEVER.
On the political right in the USA, there is the extremist caucus called the Freedom Caucus and Rep. Chris Stewart wants an Anti-Socialism Caucus (click here). I think we know that socialism as a method of governance in the USA is never going to happen. There are excellent policies that come out of an understanding that as a country we should be guaranteed our health and at the very least a high school education. I would like to see the Anti-Socialism Caucus try to end basic education in the USA, their donors would not be happy.
