You missed my point a bit. They are promoting socialism by using that label as a scare tactic for anything remotely good for people — but instead of scaring people off social programs, it just makes socialism (largely unrelated to the actual programs) sound attractive.

We are in total agreement. This is a reaction to misinformation, not the spreading of it — if people fail to understand the subtext, they aren’t going to get what I’m laying down in any case.

I’ll grant it’s probably more obscure in this post than I generally am about this point.