Most things about DSA start to make sense when you analyze it as ~10 non-profits (the biggest locals and national) that are loosely affiliated with smaller groups outside of those metropoles.

I wish DSA could break out of the nonprofit trappings but staff, those big chapters, and the number of grad students (semi joking about the last one) will always be a massive institutional barrier to it becoming a mass org of our class.

Anyways this thread was inspired by someone tweeting that it's the primary job of DSA staff to support the NPC's decisions and that is just... Not true

Anyways that's why I've largely left DSA. I really do hope it succeeds and I'm happy to keep paying dues but i can't do the internal politics anymore.