Is it true that Americans are to this day afraid of socialism?

[Jpcc86]

They hate it because they are made to hate it, its part of the propaganda they recieve on a daily basis. However, I believe most americans do no have an actual understanding of what socialism is or the fact that they have implemented several socialist practices to their society already and they do not realize it or take them for granted, such as public transportation, social security, medicare, public libraries, guaranteed public education, and several other public institutions. So while you can argue that a Social State is a terrible/good idea for whatever ideals you have, several of its most basic principles are already functional in modern society.