The Democratic Socialists of America reaffirms its call for the US to withdraw from NATO,

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19. :) "MORE rational." George Orwell described most who

called themselves socialists as a collection of various types of oddballs and nutcases, but he was a thoughtful exception, and I've read a few things suggesting there were a couple or few at the DSA.

Not those who've flooded in. And more and more have been radicalized by malign operators and encouraged to find each other in already radical leaning groups like the poor DSA.

Fwiw, I've never known anyone prone to extremism who didn't have something wrong with his thinking; I'm not talking about people with different ideas here. Virtually by definition, radicals-to-extremists are increasingly dependent on delusions to sustain beliefs unsupportable by reality. We now also know a lot of these are LW authoritarians; tRumpists are RW authoritarians, but there are great similarities and some can be either or both depending.

“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.” ~ Orwell in the mid-1930s (Not mentioned were all those whose neighbors had come to realize they might really someday kill them for their politics.)