Keynes what do you do for a living? If anything?
i grow and sell vegetables and herbs at the farmers market as my avocation, and work in a shop to keep cash flowing during the off seasons between harvests.
in other words i am a petty bourgeois capitalist counter-revolutionary pig-dog, who oppresses the proletariat by not embracing the foolishness of marxism, through the intellectual, industrial, agrarian or corporate vanguards.
as you now claim to be a democratic socialist, you should therefore be well versed in the Third Way Socialism of Mussolini, and it's place in classical marxist thought as an initial non-radicalized movement to ease the proletariat into classic socialism as a stepping stone to full Utopian Communism.
but you dont see that. you see only the democratically elected socialism of the modern socialist movement without recognizing that it is, and was designed to be, the proverbial camel's nose under the tent, with slowly escalating levels of socialism using the capitalist system's own mechanisms as the driving force.
thats why Obama is in fact a socialist, the mildest form of socialist, but still a marxist at heart.
your comments and stated opinions clearly display that you believe socialism is the source of "Goodthings" but do not recognize that it is based on the foundation and ideology of Marxism, despite the simple and undeniable fact that all forms of socialism are just steps on the path to Marx's Communist Utopia, the Worker's Paradise, and of course dont believe that even the soviet union was based entirely on Marx's philosophy and ideals, corrupted by Stalin for his own personal power.
marxism is by it's very nature a cult, since everybody must accept the premise, and join in the hymns or be branded a heretic. Marxism cannot work when there is dissent, so dissent must be eliminated.
in a capitalist system you can run off and form a commune, or a co-operative, or a collective, and theres nothing to prevent it. communes and co-ops can neatly slip into a capitalist society, as proved by the Blue Diamond Growers, one fo the largest agricultural co-ops of independent farmers in the world. in a marxist of coimmunist society you cannot run off and form a capitalist organization, since that is a Black Market which would destabilize the entire system.
logically if you love freedom and liberty, a capitalist system with it's fexible and accepting nature is the 0only real choice, since all other economic systems require enforcement to keep out any competing ideas.
markets, capital, and private industry are the solution to oppression, not the cause. the inherent inequity of the system is not a problem, it is the motivation for hard work to better your lot in life, while socialism requires chains, and communism lives only in dreams.