I would place Barack Obama under Socialism because he wanted to revive the economy, fix the social security systems, public education better, fight climate change, stop the American military involvement in the Iraq war, and make healthcare affordable. Obamacare which is the ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act makes individuals access to healthcare who decided to sign-up. This made it so then all the medical stuff was made cheaper and easier to get help.
Obama cared deeply about the environment so when he was in office he increased America’s reputation for global polling. When Obama was first elected and started in office, it was during the Great Recession. He ended up doing tax cuts. So within two years, America's economy starts to consistently create jobs. After fixing this issue, Obama shifted his attention towards ‘income and wealth inequality’. What happened was the top 1% was earning 24% of income because of globalization, automation, and policy changes combined which ended up widening the pay gap in America. He decided to increase the tax on higher-income taxpayers, which lowered from 24% to 12%, causing a decrease in the income gap. In wealth inequality, the top 1% was 36% which caused the gain to go to the wealthiest of Americans.
Obama said we should address ‘the inequality before taxes with infrastructure investment to create middle-class jobs and a federally-mandated increase in minimum wage’. What happened was the Republican Congress destroyed the initiatives. But states still ended up increasing their minimums wages because they agreed with Barack. Obama is also Pro-Abortion because he believed that If women made a mistake they should be allowed to have an abortion. Obama quotes “If they[obama’s daughters] make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” meaning he agrees with abortion. He is also Pro-LGBT to those who want to serve in the country because Obama believes everyone should be allowed to serve in the military so he signed an act stating that LGBT individuals are allowed to serve. Barack also believes that sex education should be taught in kindergarten because he believes kids in kindergarten are “age-appropriate” to be taught. Obama also tried close Guantanamo Bay in order to restore the ‘moral stature’ of America but out of 775 only 55 stays there because they are claimed to be too dangerous to America to be released.
Barack Obama is placed under socialism because he has done a lot of things in office. Something he has done is fix the gaps between the top 1% of wealthy people with the rest of the people. He also added in Obamacare, which shows that Obama believes that the government running things rather than private business are actually better for the economy. Most acts that Obama signed throughout his career in office show how much he aligns with socialism.