Because you have been lied to for years... everyone has been lied to by the establishment...
Socialism is a good thing... it is the balance for Capitalism
Capitalism means letting the rich run the country and write all the laws to benefit themselves...
You don't want pure Capitalism... it's basically anarchy where the rich run everything... an Oligarchy of corporations
You do not want an Oligarchy where corporations write the laws (which is currently how America works)... this is bad news... a disaster in the making
One example... Martin Shkreli:
Capitalist greed let him raise the price of HIV meds from $13 to $750/pill... this could not happen with socialist healthcare... there is no profit, or greed...
But, as I said... you have been lied to... you think Capitalism is a good thing, when it is self-destructive... nobody ever told you the truth... you have to do your own research
Capitalism = rich people win (get a job and work for some rich asshole, so he gets richer while you get poorer)
Socialism = everyone is equal (in theory)
You don't know the difference between capitalism and corporatism. Don't feel bad, it's a common error.
Troll much?
America is the best example we have of "Capitalism"... Capitalism inevitably leads to this situation... it is inevitable
Capitalism is based upon greed... the profit motive... capitalism is corporatism... there is no difference
You can label things however you want, but I am talking about the situation in America, as I assume everyone is...
America is also heavily Socialist... We have the fire department, police department, etc... you don't have to pay the fireman up-front to spray water on your burning house... right?
America has "social security", which is a pure socialist policy (and the most popular policy in American history)
America is a mixed-bag of many things
Part of the problem is the media... you have asshats like Bill O'Reily saying shit like, "Socialist Bernie wants to raise your taxes"... which is not true at all... he wants to raise BILL O'REILY'S taxes!... raising taxes on people making over $1,000,000/year is not "your taxes"... but people don't bother to research, they just assume Bill isn't lying to their face (spoiler: he is)
The tax situation in America is because of the rich Oligarchy... rich people pay 5-10% in taxes, and middle-class pays 30-40%+ in taxes (that's more than triple, but who is counting?)... that's Capitalism in a nutshell... rich get richer, poor get taxed to fuck