This is a record-breaking leap to generic political controversy. Could you please resist the temptation?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266290 and marked it off-topic.

Didn't know the US was socialist, but what do I know, haven't been there for quite some time.

"The United States paid around $20 billion in 2005 to farmers in direct subsidies as "farm income stabilization" via farm bills." -Wikipedia

Strategic government investment in industry is not “socialism”, even by the warped standards of modern American political discourse.