What is socialism

Subject: What is Socialism 

What do we mean when we state, 'rebuild a country to meet the needs of the many not the few'. How do we convince the many they are not the few. How do we highlight the fact that the decades long dismantling of much the many had assumed was in place to support them, like a raft of sureties that established some sort of baseline they could rely on, is no more.
"Trust me" they are not true says Boris when he denies  the words on the page of documents tabled at meetings between his people and their equivalents from Donald Trumps American camp discussing the changes to patenting laws by which the American pharmaceutical companies are protected far longer on the patents covering the life of their drugs which prevents the generic copying at the end of the patent with a accompanied massive reduction in price.  If as part of a trade deal the Americans insist that Nice, (the organisation which argues over the price the NHS pays for its drugs) accepts some sort of quid pro quo, then one of the factors influencing the cost of keeping the the NHS afloat will skyrocket. 
Perhaps we will be forced into having an insurance based system where people will pay throughout their lives the equivalent of a hypothecated tax to cover them when they need medical attention. Like any privately run system the choice of inclusion or exclusion will be solely for the owners of the company to make. High risk out low risk in.  Perhaps the system will be designed for members to access the medical system only so many times a year providing a disincentive so that people will think twice before they go to the doctor. Perhaps those on Benefits will be given a cut price service with some things offered and others not. 

It all has a sensible ring to it until you understand that human beings are under the spotlight and that part of the magic of Aneurin Bevan's philosophy that everyone could access the health service free at the point of need was based on his experience of the prewar medical profession and the skimpy services it provided to the bulk of the population before 1940.  With an almost messianic passion Bevan broke the mould turning the profession on its head saying healthcare should be free.
His vision of society, along with others in the Attlee government of 1945 was a wholistic one, light years away from Mrs Thatcher whose proclamation that individualism and self aspiration were the key and that 'Society' was to take a back seat from now on. Her aversion to Socialism has been the mainstay of all governments from then on, including that pseudo Labour government, rebranded New Labour. Not without reason was Tony Blair described as 'Son of Thatcher' or 'Thatcher Lite'.
Ideology is a system based on a series of ideals. Ideals are by definition  not real or actual, but a metaphor for something you wish to be attained. Socialism is also an ideology, it's an attitude of mind, it's an 'encompassing' passion rather than a passion to exclude. It's the opposite to exceptionalism and rather claims the right to include others and take the society, warts and all, as its primary concern.
In today's dissembling, falsifying, narcissistic world where people see life through only the prism of their own needs, is it any wonder that an elitist like Johnson gets so much traction. If everyone's goal is to win the jackpot and sail off into the blue yonder leaving behind the people you know for the option of new friends found in the bar of the Hilton Hotel. If we have become so shallow that only our own needs are counted and the rest can fend for themselves, then your Boris's man and as he hoovers up the products of the Thatcherite ideological persuasion so we will move ever closer to a dystopian construct favoured by Mr Trump and his Wall Street buddies.