The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated the long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left.
The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.
Cool, let’s see how she uses her position to improve the lives of her constituents. It’s a big moment for a few people to really sell an idea particularly against large amounts of dissent and apprehension. That means they don’t need to be normal or good, they need to be stellar. Society is a numbers game and to win the game you need to win the minds and hearts of the majority and that’s done by being consistently awesome and doing awesome shit. As much as humans play games, meritocracy is still there aka no matter how much people dislike you, if you’re awesome enough for long enough they will love you.
True, but remember this is only the primary. She still has to win in the general.
The district is Colorado’s 1st, which is Denver. She’s winning the general :D
That’s what I’m worried about with these handful of Democratic Socialist primary victories. All it takes is one or two embarrassing moments, and the whole project will be smeared.
Take Darializa Avila Chevalier for example. She blamed NATO for Russia invading Ukraine, and she recently refused to say that murderers should be incarcerated. The interviewer gave her three chances, and she filibustered with Kamala-esque word salad each time. Hopefully she has the sense to cut that kooky shit out now that the spotlight is on her.
The problem with most ideologies is people getting too fanatical and even if it’s hidden it’ll come out eventually. You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all the time. Another issue with fanaticism is it has diminishing outcomes. Look at how maga is now harming the right wing voting base. Sure it works for a little while but it’s too hot, eventually it burns the hand holding it. At the end of the day every last person on earth wants the same thing, wellbeing for themselves and their loved ones. Whoever gives them that will win their vote. Fanaticism has a way of ultimately diminishing wellbeing.
Sounds like talking to an average ml user. She’s representative of the kind of people calling Bernie Sanders a centrist zionist.