They've tried to paint Benjamin Franklin as a womanizing drunk, and have taken shots at all of them. You have but to look at your children's history texts to see this. You can spot them by their insistence that you are responsible for your neighbors before yourself. Social Security is one. Medicare is another.
All welfare is socialist.
The latest is the drive to get all the rest of us to pay for medicine for senior citizens. I'm sure you can name even more. They've taken it over. I don't agree with all of J. Edgar Hoover's methods, but he did make sure the FBI was an implacable enemy of anything socialist. To make sure all members are paid the same, even if they're incompetent.