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On the socialism .... America spent most of the 20th Century being told that Communism==Socialism==consummate evil (along with a splash of Unionism) .... despite the niggling problem that we basically hauled ourself out of the Depression and created a huge middle class with a combination of socialist mechanisms and a war that fought using a "collective team" mindset.

Individualism in the US is often pushed to the extent that "You're on your own" is extolled as some sort of virtue rather than some form of insanity in an innately social species.
The full quote should be "We've got ours, you're on your own, pbffffft." There's some fictional notion that wealth is created in a vacuum instead of a societal infrastructure.