Membership for the Democratic Socialists of America has tripled since last year

[Famous Mortimer]

So two more people joined the Democratic Socialists of America?

It really was basically a paper organization until late last year. Prior to that, it was mostly 90 year old Upper East Side Jews who actually were normal social democrats and anti-Communists (real Bernie Sanders types if you will). The old guard has been completely overwhelmed by the new members though. A few months ago a social media person got fired because they tweeted that the DSA was anti-communist (this is in the organization's constitution) and all the new members freaked out.

[Famous Mortimer]

Another controversy that has torn the group apart: someone made a very nice animated propaganda video about how great democratic socialism is. It was a bunch of stick figure people. Of course all the stick figure people were POC, there was a hijabi among them. Everyone really liked the video at first. Then someone pointed out that one of the stick figure people was a police officer (non-White of course) and people started demanding the video be taken off. "Democratic socialism benefits everyone" was the tag line of the video but lots of people were saying that we shouldn't promote the idea that it benefits cops. Others wanted to keep the video but tried to be Moderate Heroes by saying things like "look, I support prison and police abolition but for right now cops exist".

[Green Line]

Another controversy that has torn the group apart: someone made a very nice animated propaganda video about how great democratic socialism is. It was a bunch of stick figure people. Of course all the stick figure people were POC, there was a hijabi among them. Everyone really liked the video at first. Then someone pointed out that one of the stick figure people was a police officer (non-White of course) and people started demanding the video be taken off. "Democratic socialism benefits everyone" was the tag line of the video but lots of people were saying that we shouldn't promote the idea that it benefits cops. Others wanted to keep the video but tried to be Moderate Heroes by saying things like "look, I support prison and police abolition but for right now cops exist".

Why don't they just join the Democrats if thats the case?