I don’t understand this mentality. It’s exactly like saying both being cancer free and having cancer are unpleasant extremes so what is better is a mix of some healthy tissue and some cancer.
Socialism is evil and it is demonstrably so. It violates man’s rights. It is metaphysically wrong. It is wrong in its view of reality and man’s nature. There is no such thing as a proper mixture of good and evil.
The world has never seen a system of Laissez faire capitalism put into practice. The closest anyone has ever come was America at its founding and we see the results in the wealth created. But even from the first it was a mixed system and included glaring contradictions such as slavery. Yet despite the flaws it produced undreamed of wealth.
The World has never seen a system of pure Socialism either. The closest anyone has come is probably in North Korea and we see the results. Still it is a mixture of capitalism and socialism as the secret police can’t catch every illegal trade of goods that goes on since people’s will to live is so strong that they will risk death in an internment camp to raise an illegal head of cabbage and trade it with their fellows.
America had a brilliant start and could have moved more and more towards a system of laissez faire or towards Socialism. For a brief shining time we did after the Civil War but then In the late nineteenth century we took a turn. The cancer of Socialism is well advanced now and we see the results.
Cancer is a bad example. Only an iron bar is 100% cancer free. It is all about terminology. I’m fully aware about evils of socialism but what about basic workplace safety? It is considered a socialist feature, are you about to deny it as well?