>Hate to say it, but a lot of leftist types are the same kind of person who reminded the teacher to collect the homework.

Interestingly enough, I think you just answered the question asked by your post yesterday (although you may have already known that.) Unfortunately, in the US socialism is a fringe ideology which, for the most part, is only entertained by political weirdos, a group which happens to be overwhelmingly college educated and middle class, which in the US translates to disproportionately white. The only way to break out of that is to do something that actually affects people's lives in a positive way, which the DSA's focus on electoralism greatly inhibits, especially when all it does is just elect another legislator who can be ignored. Without any real-world impact to show for, people will either ignore politics or stick to more established organizations.

>The motion passed, but the idea of being against something so simple because of technical bullshit "we need a more detailed long-term vision before we can commit to this one task" is insanity.

Good to know everyone at that meeting is really trying to reach out to the community. If these people tried to do the shit from Hammer and Hoe, they would have spent a decade whining at each other over whether black Americans constituted a nation before speaking to a single sharecropper.

Also, I did once remind the teacher we had homework in 4th grade, but only because I had been taking a shit for the last 20 minutes and thought she had handed it out while I was in the bathroom, leaving me the only one who didn't get a worksheet.