Well hello...we are already a socialist country. The government now controls, taxes, regulates, monitors, or otherwise influences virtually everything in our lives. In this country the power of the state is pervasive. If that isn’t socialism I don’t know what is.
Means of production still belong to the individual(s). Private property isn’t forbidden, land can be purchased and inherited, so technically, we are not a socialist/communist party as former Soviet Union or modern Cuba. Even Russia and China aren’t socialist countries anymore, they are just oligarchies with mixed economies.