It's only been since completing their takeover of the mainstream media in 2008 that average Dem Party members will now gradually come to admit to being socialists. This has occurred because the fanatically leftist-loyal MSM spins both history and definitions so that the average Dem Party voter now BELIEVES that socialism is good for a nation and a people.
Give the process time to ripen. In a double handful of years it is quite possible that Dem Party voters will start bragging about being FASCISTS as well. It's . . . a . . . process.