I don’t just mean outrage or regular rage, I mean shock that someone was to the left of “legal weed and free college but only for those that operate a successful business for 3 years in a disadvantaged community” 
takes.
I think federating took them by surprise, looking back. For about a week, those smug liberals were at a loss to even fathom what Hexbears were saying, and could only chant bullshit about how we’re Russian/Chinese bots.
Sure they still do that but they’ve slightly adapted to Hexbear presence.
Literally it is impossible to achieve socialism by Bourgeoisie Democratic means, they will do everything within their power to kill the movement.
By chance, what do you mean by Democratic Socialism? A lot of the times it gets mixed up. If you mean democracy inside socialism, then there is no problem there. Communism and Democracy are hand-in-hand, in every ideology of socialism. Democratic Centralism is what we preach as Marxist Leninists.
If you mean Social Democracy like that of the nords, we can effectively explain how those are not effective examples of worker power, and just ineffective in general.