system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What is Socialism? And why do people think America is coming to that?

I keep hearing that Obama is making America socialist. I'm sure I learned what it was back in grade school but do not remember what it is exactly. And is it really that bad?
gpt
It's maybe worth saying in addition to the responses you've had, that *nobody* at all, outside the US, thinks that America is going socialist. 

That some Americans think they are, is pretty funny and the result of what Europeans, in various languages, used to call propaganda. Of course there's no such thing as propaganda in the States. That would be ridiculous.