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I have been called fascist and I have been called communist in online discussions.
In reality, I believe that social democracy is the best ideiology.
You need high taxation to finance a good safety net for the citizens of a country, and you need the free market to capitalize on human ambition.
This means that you need a strong government to enforce the rules and provide public services.
Water and power should be government run, internet is more tricky these days, a hybrid model where the local government build the infrastructure but you need to buy internet access from an ISP.
Healthcare should be government run, but with some private alternatives, government would provide good solid care, private alternatives would provide the came medical care but with improved service during your stay.
Trains should be run by the government, large industries should be able to pay to get a spur connected to their facility if they need it, all tracks should be electrified.
Public transport should be run by the local government, and can be run at a direct loss, the increased ability for jobs and shops will make up for the shortfall of cheap tickets. Gadget bahns would be banned.
It's surprising what people these days will call fascism if not going by what someone thinks. That sounds virtually the exact opposite of that.
Truth be told, I think I would be a very close call to the "social democracy" umbrella, if I was to be called anything.
People in groups seems to decide to decide that outsiders must be the worst people ever these days.
This is probably a result of the online echo chambers we have built, people are less exposed to other people's views in their day to day lives, and miss the subtleties of IRL contact.
Text is a very blunt tool to communicate, it is also very easy to ignore others through text, so what remains is communication between the groups which is very binary, which makes it simple to just assume the worst and ignore it.
Honestly I think a large majority of people would be on board with this system, the thing is how do you describe this to a disengaged voting population in a way that is understandable but brief ? And at the same time, how do you quickly counter the 'communist' argument that would come from the ultra-capitalist right?
Unless you have actually lived in a society like this as a normal person, not as Richguy McSpoiled, it probably sounds like a fantasy or like you are letting others freeload on your work.
Plenty of people will only look at the payceck and see a much lower number without also comparing the public services you recieve.