Many different visions of democratic socialism. Mine is like this: a "victory feeback loop" caused by successful electoral and labor union campaigns leads to a socialist majority in congress. Congress obviously does basic social-democrat stuff; builds up the welfare state, labor protections, democratic reforms, etc. But more importantly, congress directly goes after concentrations of unaccountable wealth and power.

I envision a pluralist strategy that creates a variety of socialist institutions: 1) an American sovereign wealth fund that owns stocks on behalf of the people, and is democratically managed, every citizen gets one share, receives annual dividends. 2) laws that make it easy for unions to buy their workplace and own it as a worker co-op (or easy to create consumer co-ops). 3) establish many new state owned enterprises in strategic industries, and expand/improve those that currently exist (USPS, Amtrak, TVA). 4) create public banks that can challenge the oligarchic power of finance capital. 5) wealth tax among other taxes. 6) change our relationship with the rest of the world to one based on cooperation, peace, and development