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

[Bofferbrauer2]

Nautilus said:
Who isn't afraid of socialism?

Its a facism regime that killed hundreds of millions of people. Everyone should be very afraid of it.

Fascism and Socialism are diametrically opposed to each other. That's like calling a republic a monarchy.

If you meant Communism or the Nazis with that remark, you should be aware that:

1. Communism had deviated so far from Socialism that there was little left of it, and the way it was ruled was definitely outside of what socialism aimed for. Stalin was kicked upstairs to General Secretary because they wanted him out of the way as he was a corrupt Autocrat, but he used his new post to great degree as it gave him tabs on every in the party - especially his political ennemies. What the soviet Union had become was not because of socialism, but because of a crazy autocrat with delusions of grandeur. Stalinism has much more in common with fascism than actual socialism. Hence why actual socialists declared themselves the third camp after WW2, with the first one being the US and their capitalist allies, and the second one the Soviet Union and their subordinate states. 
2. Nazis have socialism in their name, but in their own words that was just to attract voters and has nothing to do with what socialism really means. And if you go by that standard and that goalpost, then you could stay democracy and republics stand for totalitarian state that tracks your every move, lets it's people starve to death all the time and being decades behind the rest of the world. Why? Well, because of the German Democratic Republic and the Democratic People's Republic of North Corea. Just like they took democracy and republic and made hollow, meaningless words out of them, so did the Nazis with socialism.
3. Neither are a direct result of the economic system in place. The "socialist" states that cropped up were mostly financed by the Soviet union and were thus to follow their doctrines. But again, that has nothing to do with socialism as an economic system.