America has never had a party called the Democratic Socialist Party . If you mean the Socialist Party of America , it has since fractured and gone defunct . [en.m.wikipedia.org] Like , the last time I have ever been able to exercise the opportunity to vote for a Socialist candidate was in 2010 , when I voted for Dan La Botz for U.S. Senate [en.m.wikipedia.org] . Currently , I either vote for a select number of Democrats , such as for example this faction in particular [en.m.wikipedia.org] , but if I fail to find any whom meet my satisfaction , I vote for Greens , who are eco-socialist now [en.m.wikipedia.org] . Most every socialist in the United States supports either the Democrats or the Greens . Why even the Communists run candidates as Democrats , if and when they ever do . Case in point , [blog.cleveland.com] .

I didn't but I live in a red state.

Progressive Social Democracy is the direction that America need to go. With a World Population that has gone from under 1 Billion people to one that is approaching 8 Billion now, we need to give greater care on average to the vastness that is Humanity. Yes we can.