I am honestly not sure how true the first part is. As far as I know, DSA is the largest socialist org and it's not close. Anecdotally, where I live I know a few other orgs exist, but genuinely I have never seen any more than one member from those orgs at a time, and it's not very common. If I left DSA for another org, it seems quite likely the scope of activity where I could get involved would be greatly diminished. Joining a DSA chapter ran by harringtonites would suck, but joining a glorified book club would also suck. I agree with you that we should encourage people to join orgs doing useful work (and steer people away from bad orgs). That org near someone might be a DSA chapter, it might not be. It's not all democratic entryism lmao.

Like if someone not familiar with the DSA read your comment they would get the idea that it's all electoralists and they all are fans of AOC and they all put all their effort on electing democrats and that's simply not true. A significant portion of DSA's work is non-electoral. I don't want to sound like I'm doing a fucking commercial for the DSA but literally if the chapter near you is good, you can join and ignore electoral stuff. If you want (and you are near a chapter that actually does this), you can join and just focus on labor for example. If the chapter is like yours, then yeah find another org if one exists.

If you've found a better org in which you can do better organizing then that's fantastic, genuinely. You won't hear any defense from me of the DSA spending resources electing socdems in congress, not expelling bowman, dissolving the palestine working group, etc. etc.