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Cool, I'm not America and one side of my family comes from ex-soviet eastern Europe. So I know what I'm talking about and aren't just a "tourist".
Socialism is really just a better system than capitalism, even welfare capitalism. As capitalism is, by design, optimising for profit/power of people who are already rich or powerful. Any measures taken to curb that, or to protect poor people will always be fighting against the current of the system and so is always easier to reverse than to implement.
Socialism naturally protects the interests of the workers over profits, which means things like human rights and workers well being are natural heuristics of the system, so are therefore easier to implement than take away.
The "problem" with Socialism has always been either authoritarians taking advantage of the power vacuum created by socialist uprisings, or capitalists pouring massive resources into sabotaging Socialism to protect the profits and power of the rich and powerful.
Those problems are hard to get through, but if we ever do get through them, we will have an undoubtedly better system.