Didn’t the US used to fight Socialism?

In Vietnam, we fought socialists. In Korea, we fought socialists. In the Cold War, we fought socialists. In World War II, we fought socialists. Now we elect them. From a recent Gallup poll:

How is it that in 2010 more than one-third of U.S. citizens have a positive view of socialism? Socialism has killed almost as many people as war, cancer, and natural causes combined! The next question should have been to name their most favorite socialist. Unsurprisingly, over half of Democrat respondents held a positive view of socialism.

As to the four percent who held a negative view of small business, that would presumably be the four percent of America that now works for the Obama administration.