College used to free in America back in the 50's or something. I can't remember, exactly, but it was when America was considered to be it's "greatest". And socialism and communism are 2 different things. The Democrat socialism will make the country more like Sweden and Canada which are doing pretty damn good I'm my opinion. Nothing is free, but when I am paying 40% of my income in taxes, like right now, I expect to get something in return. Under the current system I get zero benefit...
Also, America is not capitalist. There is probably more socialism in this country than capilasm like mentioned earlier, the police, military, roads, etc. If it was truly capitalist, every time you go outside and start driving you would pay a toll to whoever owned that section of road.
We actually have what is called a "socialism for rich - capitalism for poor" system.