text: You show hypocrisy by condemning democratic-socialism when you support "public roads, armies, infrastructure." Congress approved the first public road in 1806 funded with taxes: a form of socialism. Not all taxpayers used the road, but their money funded it. Strict capitalists would have refused and relied on privately owned roads. The Military is funded with taxes, even if a taxpayer in Alaskan wilderness never uses it: a form of socialism. Strict capitalists would refuse and rely on private armies. A state builds a dam to power a city using taxes from people who never visit that city--a form of socialism. Strict capitalists would rely on private generators. Any reasonable person can't denounce democratic-socialist programs as radical and also claim they are inherent to and necessary for our society. Twist your words as much as you wish, but the redistribution of taxes into public programs regardless if the individual taxpayer uses them is by definition a form of democratic-socialism.