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When I was in the DSA this was pretty common. I realized by the end of my time there that you kinda just need to force things through yourself and nine times out of ten all the detractors will just follow you anyways. If they have complaints about something set a deadline for them to fix it themselves otherwise it isn't changing. You should be helpful and friendly to your comrades especially if they're actually going to participate but that doesn't mean they should hold you back if you have vision. It's like Lenin's analogy about the soldiers marching through the swamp from What is to be Done.

Edit: more specifically, pick an action, set a time and a place, and then solve the details. Without deadlines you'll never get anything done.

Edit 2: the reason the right wing of the DSA is so effective is because as individual or in their small groups they're competent enough to get the ball rolling on the things they want and then the great mass of the rest of the org just falls in line. Meanwhile the "left" of the org is constantly bickering over every little detail while actually contributing very little to enacting a program. Be like the rightists in carrying out work.

I could be convinced to help your revolutionary group in exchange for headpats

Food, good food

I'm not joking, people will show up for it and the rest will follow

Does your org have the vibe of a friend group hanging out or the vibe of a church volunteer group?

Not that it was ultimately particularly successful but my last org I hosted monthly dinners at my place. People enjoyed my vegan cooking and we just hung out and broke bread together. Board games are a decent option if you're all past 30 and so inclined. Anything to get people to spend time with you IRL. Absent close shared circumstances like coworkers I think you really have to manufacture bonds beyond being mad at the same stuff you read online. You don't have to be best friends or anything but if someone is going to an action they should think "here is an opportunity to hang out with my buddies" instead of just "here is an opportunity to manifest my stated values IRL"

Have one on ones with like everybody. Do you have people you work well with? Enlist their help, start holding weekly meetings for something tangible, other than internal organizing. Start building campaigns. Organizational myopia crops up everywhere, there something about this work that engages a lot of bureaucratic thinking and approaches. And that needs to be combatted. People often want to formalize something that doesn't have a concrete basis. We like abstract things. Then it causes burn out when the a priori structures that were formalized have problems and gaps.

Plan an education event, a mobilization event, and a follow up. Use the education event to get people to mobilize, then use the mobilization to organize and gather contacts for another education event. Have lots of side conversations, recruit people to lead educations and mobilizations. Take names, build contacts, follow up.

Do not waste time trying to get people to do something. Give people something to do. Campaigns create the basis for organizing, and party structures emerge out of campaign work. When orgs start organizing themselves, they produce bourgeois leadership structures and give way to opportunism. Struggle for internal democracy and keep making shit happen. Ideas only exist in practice, what they build won't exist, and what you build will, and the difference is political. So get your group of 1-2 other people and start meeting regularly. Just make sure you center work on politics and not pragmatism.