So all liberals are socialists? That's not true. Also, it depends on what type of capitalism and socialism you're talking about. Laissez-faire capitalism certainly didn't work so well for the average worker in the Gilded Age, hence the push to create labor unions (which were violently resisted by corporations), the Populist and Progressive movements of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries were designed to fix those problems. The New Deal went even further and created the modern regulated capitalist, welfare state. I don't think that Social Security has been a failure, or Medicare and Medicaid, or unemployment insurance, or sick leave, or a 40-hour work week, or any of the changes made to capitalism in the early-to-mid 20th Century. Regulated capitalism has generally worked pretty well. The problem is that conservatives fought most of those reforms every step of the way, and are still trying to roll many of them back by privatizing or just gutting them. Pure, unregulated capitalist economies generally haven't worked very well, which is why neither the USA nor virtually any other advanced society has that type of capitalism anymore. But conservatives certainly seem to want to return to it - just like Thom Tillis when he said early in his Senate tenure that we don't really need the FDA anymore, because the "marketplace" would ensure that food is sanitary.