Socialism in the USA

I never realized it until tonight, but the idea of socialism is alive and well and quite particularly scary here in America.  I had not heard of any major socialist movements in years gone by, but I must remark that I realize today that upon watching some of the news that Socialism is the force egging on the Occupy Wall Street Movement.  The OWS is a group of anarchists.  They hide behind the banner of liberalism and liberal politics and they appeal to the angry people on the left.  The fact is that the left is right some of the time, but not all of the time.  I am a Democrat today and I side with the left on political issues for the most part.  But today, I am watching Michael Moore on Television.  He is egging on the protestors.  I had recently seen him in a CNN interview and thought he was quite intelligent.  But I must profess, I have never wanted or ventured to adjust to his demagoguery in terms of watching his films and considering the permissive-pacifist bias that he has in filming evils and trying to exploit public opinion to reshape society.  I have decided that I will not indeed choose to watch his films.  But I will listen to him in an interview and try to decide what he has to offer. 
To me, Mr. Moore is a socialist.  I had hoped he was a liberal as there was some liberal inclination in his speech and thoughts.  But in truth, Michael Moore is a leading socialist and he thrives in the dilemmas of bringing pain and suffering to those who are in higher places of priviledge in today's society.
Michael Moore is wealthy and influential.  Yet I think that today he is quite unpopular for good reason.  I do worry that his message will result in his own demise and likely that would be at the hands of persons who are bent to do evil to him and bring about a life threatening situation or murder.   I have heard him report that he gets many death threats. 
Sometimes you get death threats because you are doing the right thing and it infuriates an element that is filled with hatred.
Sometimes you do the wrong thing and you get death threats because you infiltrate the community of persons filled with hatred with a new sense of audacity and that they can not cope with the combined hatred and other ways of destruction in their minds and being.
I suspect that Mr. Moore is a combination of both of these types of assessments.

Watching the OWS crowds today, I am simply amazed at the sheer numbers of mostly youth who would go to the lengths to make this sit in upstaging of Usual Industry and Business in America.
I do realize that of course there is corruption and discord in todays society; yet I am perplexed thinking that so many people are so inflamed that they must indeed show their presence in a public way. 
This scares me in a sense as I think that it ruins the cleaner image of American society in the eyes of the international community. I do think that America is a mostly clean place in terms of ideology overall; especially among the democrats and some of the conservatives (radical pluralists are far from clean in my eyes).
So to watch these protests, I must wonder what horrible forces are pushing them on and on.  These children are pawns in the hands of the socialists.  And I think that the socialists are indeed quite dangerous.