There are two major changes which would help bring a form of democratic socialism to the US. The first is a change in the structure of authority within industry. The current model of the corporate elite, (Chariman, President, CEO, other shareholding board members) resembles the governing model of England under the magna carta, where the king, and the nobility held power. There must be a universal change among all major businesses that have "gone public," especially the banking industry who's majority stock is currently held by the state. The co-operative system resembles the model of a republic, where at least half of the governing body are elected by the working population and the other portion by the shareholders (workers are shareholders too).