Let's, again, go at this systematically

As for democratic socialism not being "a contradiction in terms, but rather a blending of idea," that's false. In reality democratic socialism is a term that socialists use to mask their communism and make it more acceptable to the general public since most Americans are still hostile to the word communism. Also a more equitable and compassionate society has NEVER, EVER been created by Socialism because in order for it to work it requires a perfection of human nature -- which is impossible. It puts its entire trust and its entire hope into the arms of the government, enslaving a blind population of sheeple to the cold, hard chains of government dependence. It's never worked and it never will. Rather than, as you put a "more equitable and compassionate society," socialism has unconditionally and always lead to racism, bigotry, and an Orwellian police state that censors all those who dare to oppose it.

Socialism has birthed Stalin and Hitler, the two most evil men in world history, and has destroyed the lives of two hundred million people enslaved in the Russian gulags or exterminated in the Nazi death camps. It had spawned infinite, bloody wars like Korea and Vietnam and cast the shadow of Nuclear Threat on America. Even today, Socialism destroys freedom and kills all those who dare to dissent from Big Brother (also known as Xi Jinping) who ordered his soldiers to fire into a crowd of anti-regime protestors who were completely peaceful in a bloody massacre. It has led to the purposeful creation and intentional release of the COVID-19 China Virus, in order to ensure "survival of the fittest" by exterminating the weak and the elderly in cold blood and furthermore to promote China's interests by destroying the economics of Western Capitalism and destroying our educational system. So when you take that in to account probably 300 MILLION SOULS have been victims of Socialism.

Saying that Socialism really works and that no one ever did it right is like shoving a fork into an…  Baca lebih lanjut electric socket and telling your skeptical friend that everyone else did it wrong. It's the very definition of insanity -- trying the same thing and expecting different results.