Which of these do you consider yourself?

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45. No, I can assure you it is not widely held, and that is again, typical American hubristic thinking.

You cannot just snap your fingers and undo 2 plus centuries of academic and real world (at the common zeitgeist level) definitions and consequences of labels based upon those definitions. It is a waste of time and a waste of political capital.

The DSA itself is very much divided between social democrats, actual socialists, and outright Marxists and Trotskyite communists.

It is also damaging to the US Democratic Party by needlessly giving the RW a club to beat us over the head with.

I suggest you go study, to see real world manifestations and outcomes, the interactions over the past 80 years or so between the Social Democrats and the actual socialists (and communists when they were in the same umbrella political groups and parties) in Sweden. I myself have posted somewhat in depth on that subject here in the past.