While I know that this may be futile, but perhaps if you exposed yourself to examples of discourse that weren't so far left or right, your assessment of things having to be an extreme postion one way or the other would diminish. Can we recognize that being on either the left or right of the political spectrum does not mean being either red or violet, but that there are an infinite number of colors in the spectrum between the two?

The current President is a liberal/progressive. At the core of that ideology is the belief that government has the obligation and ability to help and assist the citizens of the nation. That's a long way from socialism.