The peaceniks are stupid/gullible/brain-damaged/doped-up enough to believe that a socialist state is exactly what should become of America. They believe that we can have a socialist government and economy, yet they will still have the same freedom and material goodies that they have now. They completely ignore the fact that socialism is a dismal failure everywhere that it has been tried and that socialist governments usually become brutal dictatorships that ruthlessly abuse and murder its citizens. The USSR and China have murdered over 100 million of their own citizens combined. But the American peaceniks always believe that socialism is a great idea but it wasn't implemented properly in the USSR and China.
It doesn't help that the news media feeds them a line of crap about socialist countries in the world. The media has them believing that European countries like France and Sweden are cute little socialist utopian countries where everybody is happy, everybody has a job, everybody has a standard of living close to the USA, and that the government provides a wonderful array of free healthcare and services that exceeds the standards of the USA.
The truth is that a lot of these countries are facing serious problems and many of them are moving away from a socialist type of government and economy because it just isn't working to their satisfaction. But don't try to tell the American peaceniks who have never ventured anywhere in the world except some 3rd world mudhole where they served their Peace Corps mission. They have this vision that Europe's socialist countries are a grand utopia vision for the future.