This is kinda a stupid thread, just about everyone advocate for socialism in one way or another, the difference? How much of it you advocate for. Even conservatives like some of it, such as public funding for schools, even Ron Paul with his plan to subsidize schooling through a tax credit (hr 1056) is still a form of socialism, i.e. more and better education will help people to get better jobs and contribute more to the economy. That is politicians "planning" how the economy should be built from the bottom, laying a framework for it. If you truly want to get rid of socialism, the conservative stand point should be "we don't care if you kids go to school or not, its your choice, and we will not fund it at ANY level."
Also police, fire, and military is more socialism.
So to respond to the thread title "So democrats do in fact advocate socialism" yeap they sure do, but also you can say "So conservatives do in fact advocate socialism" yeap they sure do, just not as much as democrats.