And has been for some time. In this case socialism means publicly owned services or assets. Remember to mention this when some ignoramus rails against socialism. And don't let capitalism privatize any of it! For example:
"There are around two thousand publicly owned utilities that, along with consumer-owned cooperatives, provide around 25 percent of the nation’s electricity. […] Around 87 percent of the US population gets its water from publicly owned water at the municipal level. [...] Nearly all public transportation systems — buses, subways, trams — in the United States are publicly held. […] Across the country, nearly five hundred commercial airports are publicly operated. […] Around 20 percent of community hospitals in the United States are publicly owned. […] There are roughly 98,000 public schools (kindergarten through twelfth grade) in the United States that educate around 50.7 million students and employ nearly 3.2 million teachers. More than two million people are employed at the nation’s nearly two thousand public two- and four-year universities and colleges."
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