"people like you"... how charming...
actually the other way around. i noticed a lot of republicans call out the democrats for being "socialist" and even the democrat candidates wrongly call them self "socialist like norway" when actually they mean "social democratic"....
this can be very confusing for "people like you" since you live in an unregulated capitalism where rich can lobby law makers to cut tax for rich... hence anything more left than that looks left, but this can be remarkable differences like the difference between venezuela and denmark.... difference between vietnam and indonesia (might feel less like comparing apples and oranges)...
socialist parties are part of "socialist international" while social democratic parties part of "progressive aliance"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Alliance
you see the differene between countries with leading or co-leading parties that are socialist (red) or social democratic (green)?
these are parties united by an ideology...
all of europe is green, and most of our countries have either free hospitals or a working health insurance for all system, and most of us have free education...
also whats not marked red there are socialist/communist dictatorships i notice like vietnam or china
some of the social democratic parties are actually still member of the socialist international aswell for some reason, since the progressive aliance is kinda new when european social democrats were pissed off that is was too socialist and too little social democratic and made their own group "progressive aliance"
RE: Europe's Quid pro Quo