Yes, the American who lead the world in every economic category surely do not understand anything about the economy. Just a bunch of ignorant fat dudes who just happen to make more money than everyone else.

At this point I'm going to ask you for some evidence that Americans were "taught to hate" socialism because of anti-Nazi propaganda and that this influenced public thought on a level comparable to the anti-Communist propaganda that included socialism in the public mind.  Because I'm not convinced that you didn't just go, "Americans hate Nazis and socialists, must be connected". 

When I hear people talk about how bad socialism is, I do hear comparisons to the USSR and how it's a slippery slope to communism or socialists are secretly communists, but I don't recall ever hearing about Nazi Germany in anti-socialist rants.  It could be just because the Cold War is more recent and lasted longer, but I still need evidence to be swayed by a claim that goes against available observation.

Also, what is your evidence that Americans confuse socialism with specifically dictatorship?—and I mean actual dictatorship and not misusing dictatorship as a synonym for "mob rule", and not dictatorship as "well it's communist and communist countries turn into dictatorships".

[edit:  I mean, I often hear complaints about how socialist Europe is and how we need to avoid turning into socialists like they did, but they don't turn that into warnings about European dictatorships.]

I don't know about that, but I will concede that we have the thickest farmers.

Socialism kills. Enough said.

More like what's left of the private sector ... only 1/3 of the companies that were there as recently as 1999 still remain. Chavez and Maduro basically declared war on the private sector and only a small fraction of what it was remains. 

What little is left of the private sector will continue to fade away, just give them time. They are doing a fantastic job of running the country into the ground as quickly as they can. 

https://www.inc.com/thomas-koulopoulos/the-biggest-risk-to-your-business-cant-be-eliminated-heres-how-you-can-survive-i.html

That stat seems to suggest that most companies don't even last for 6 months, so it wouldn't be surprising at all if 67% of the companies from 19 years ago are gone.

Did you read the article you linked? Here is a key detail: 

1. As much as 60 percent of hacked small and medium-sized businesses go out of business after six months.

Total firms (US)

Well they were practicing socialist policies which was part of their vast over spending, over regulating, price controlling, etc. Left wingers like to point out the private sector exists but there was left wing meddling, essentially they were killing the private sector because they're socialist and that's what they do.

Was it truly a socialist state? Not quite. Because they collapsed before they could truly achieve a socialist state.

This financial crisis could have been avoid with better leadership. Venezuela now exists as an example of how socialist policies can be dangerous.

Funny that you say fat, because the US has one if not the highest fat index in the world.

I think mexico took the cake on that one. 😹