I'm curious how you define socialism in respect to countries like Norway and Sweden. Last I checked, they haven't killed 100 million people in the name of socialism.tru that...these young dumbasses don't know what socialism or communism is...they think they can make them work better than Lenin , Stalin , Mao , Pol Pot...they are gonna have to kill about 100 million to do it better than them...
I really wouldn't count on a socialist candidate in the future. We have a two party system and like you said, the democrats worked against Sanders to make sure he didn't get anywhere, and will do so again to any actual progressive candidates in the future. At this point, the democrats are essentially paid to lose, so the way politics looks right now is what you can likely expect for many years to come.That's what you get when socialism is programmed into peoples minds to be equivalent to communism. But considering that Bernie was a socialist and he was near to beating Hillary, and would have beat Trump had the democrats not work against him, America would have a socialist president right about now.
The more Trump fucks up, the more likely the next president is going to be socialist. Look at the choices the right had to represent them. Ted Cruz is a laughing joke on the internet, and Paul Ryan is... well look. Hillary lost cause she's really a Republican in disguise among other things.