As an ex card-carrying member of DSA, let me ask you this: what has DSA actually done other than fundraising or endorsing the "humanitarian" bombardment of Serbia by NATO?
As an Arabic proverb goes, "a half-doctor can be worse than no doctor at all." An emasculated excuse for a socialist organization is worse than no socialist organization at all - it is a Potemkin village to maintain the pretense of democracy and pluralism in the US polity.
wojtek