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Why people keep mentioning those European capitalist countries when talking about socialism? I just don't get it. Why?
- they actually don't know what socialism is?
- they do know what it is but for some reason don't know those countries are capitalist to their bone?
- they think US is the only capitalist country in the world therefore the rest must be socialist?
- they know exactly what they are talking about but use socialism in conjunction to those countries in a plot to make people believe that is actually socialism so people will vote for it when they hear "socialism"?

All capitalist countries are socialist to ascertain extent. Police, schools and firefighters are an example. Government provided services with the taxpayer money where it doesn't matter how rich you are you are going to get the same service. Canada, Denmark and UK (gosh people even mention UK which is the cradle of capitalism) just take it to the next level socialising other services like health, pensions and etc with more regulations.