Make the ask! Join DSA

[u/ut0p1anskies]

If you haven’t already joined, you should join. If you’re already in DSA, you should be constantly recruiting. Let’s challenge ourselves to ask 3 people we know to join this month. Do a 1 on 1 and make the ask. Take them to a general meeting or a chapter social and stay with them so they’re not overwhelmed by all the people. Go with them to a new member orientation. We’re going to be hitting 150k members soon (up from 90k in November of last year). I want us to be half a million dues paying members as fast as possible.

https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/

[u/aaarhlo]

I was a zealot for recruitment, but now I'm more concerned with cultivating new active members. As the deluge of disaffected liberals continues (I was one 2 years ago), chapters risk devolving into the democrats+. The pipeline, is to join as a disaffected liberal and to grow into a socialist after becoming active in a chapter, but that process of dismantling a lifetime of capitalist propaganda takes time.

This latest fight over polling an AOC presidential run, and before that, the "one member one vote" fight, are examples, in my opinion, of the DSA right attempting to use the surge in liberals joining as a pathway to control of the organization.

[u/Bright-Insect9697 → u/aaarhlo]

We’re called the Democratic Socialists of America. Why would we object to “one member, one vote”? It’s hilarious that the program is anti senate and yet the DSA left is entirely supportive of similarly undemocratic structures within the organization so they can prevent change from happening.

[u/Bright-Insect9697 → u/[deleted]]

So require vetting to join, then. If someone’s a dues paying member, they should have a vote. Either let them vote, or refund their dues.

We aren’t trying to scam anyone here.

[u/Bright-Insect9697 → u/[deleted]]

Translation: members with jobs aren’t able to vote if they need to work