It’s not a highly centralized organization at this point in time because the most important task in the imperial core is deprogramming decades of antisocialist propaganda. Keeping the org decentralized in this way at this point in time allows each chapter to have a unique local approach that brings more people on board with the left in general and opens the door for further base building, which has undeniably taken off in the past ten years as DSA’s numbers (and thus dues) have risen dramatically. The demographics of the org have also dramatically changed from older white people to a more diverse crowd of younger people who are increasing the visibility of socialism to the next generation