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I don't think it's socialist enough, by far, but I do wonder if America is actually emotionally suited to socialism -- as least as it's practiced in other countries, with zillions of rules and regs and a lot of decisions up to some undermotivated drone with a clipboard who can look down his nose at you and decide, on his very own, whether to make your life hell or not. Facetiously, I'm wondering whether there's a reason why most heavily socialist countries also have serious gun contro. Maybe it's necessary to protect bureaucrats :-).
That said, what forms of socialism we do have grew out of the New Deal of the 1930s Depression. It gained support then because people reevaluated what gov't should do for them. Previously, most people thought that only bums needed gov't assistance, and if you were a good and enterprising person you'd do all right. Then millions of "good people," including many in the middle class, found themselves out of work and needing help. But.... they didn't think of themselves as bums... so maybe gov't social services were really necessarily sometimes.
In the 70 years since the Great Depression, the New Deal impetus of social programs has grown, burgeoned and now in later years begun to decline as, once again, a lot of Americans believe that only the lazy and undeserving ask for it. But if we have another economic/social disruption that hits the middle classes, they'll once again reevaluate the need for social services -- especially if _they_ suddenly need them -- and we may have a new New Deal. I'm expecting in within 10 years.
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