I do adore a great many socialists. You will find many are actually altruistic intellectuals.

However I like to say, if you are a true socialist and not a hypocrite, then spend some time as a civil servant or in some capacity which is responsible for the well being of other people you are not related to.

And I can think of two for instance in which socialist values work: cooperatives and military service!

>Even then, 60% of dems think the party is already too far left. So I'm not sure exactly why you are rooting for some socialist party. Nobody wants it. If people wanted it, the party would exist.

The party does exist. We're in a thread discussing said party. And I guess you didn't read the part of my comment where I pointed out that the reason that party exists is that people do want the Democrats to move further left than they're willing to.

Also socialism seems to work just fine throughout the entire Western world, for the definition of "socialism" being used here.