Well yeah, the Democratic Party seems to be trying to make the term "socialism" have a positive connotation instead of the negative one it has had for decades.

Well yeah, the Democratic Party seems to be trying to make the term "socialism" have a positive connotation instead of the negative one it has had for decades. Republicans label everything they don't like as "socialism", so the simplest way to fix the negative view of various policies is to reverse the connotation of the word. Neither side cares about actual definitions of words, they just care about how the public feels about them. I wish we could change politics to be more of a "roundtable discussion" with the discussion topic being some tangible problem, and each political group promoting some solution with a list of pros and cons. You'd them vote for candidates based on their ability to make rational arguments, not party affiliation. But no, we don't live in a reasonable world, so we'll have an ongoing mudslinging match where occasionally good policy gets passed. In this world, I hope for a deadlock in Congress because we get good policy so infrequently.