> Melat Kiros was born in 1997, the year her representative in the U.S. House, Democrat Diana DeGette, took office. On Tuesday, Kiros hopes to unseat her. > The next frontier of the fight for the Democratic Party is in Denver, where DeGette, a 15-term incumbent and longtime progressive, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet from Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and first-time candidate. > Democrats’ widespread dissatisfaction and anger with their party leadership and a push for generational change in the wake of the party’s loss to President Donald Trump in 2024 have made incumbents in safe blue seats, like DeGette, unexpectedly vulnerable, with both Kiros and University of Colorado Regent Wanda James challenging her. https://19thnews.org/2026/06/melat-kiros-degette-colorado-democratic-primary/
Sounds goodA 15 termer who a quick google search shows hasn't done anything of note since the mid 00's is just coasting and cashing checksSome fresh blood and competition should shake her out of her complacency, even if brieflyAnd if it doesn't, maybe it's time for a fresh face in the seat
>>1522109I’d rather have the oldest blood than a Socialist.
>>1522110Lots of young/ younger people on both sides of the aisle, pretty much anyone who came of age during or after the recession of 2008, feel like the post Soviet world of unchecked capitalism has failed them and are looking for alternativesThe failure and complacency of the current system is what always leads to a radicalized youthIf the promises of "America is the land of opportunity" and "Work hard and you'll get ahead" had actually been true for the younger generations, socialism would be a total fringe ideology
>>1522124Socialism is still fringe. The ideas they're pushing are just pretty basic liberal democracy stuff, centrist if anything.
>>1522126That's the hilarious thing. They overton window has shifted so far rightward that after calling everything under the sun socialist, people have stopped giving a shit.Much like the right no longer caring about being called racist or nazis, the left has stopped calling about the socialist label. If you're going to call us the thing no matter what, may as well keep going
>>1522127>They overton window has shifted so far rightwardYou can unironically be socialist and run for office. You cannot be a fascist, ethnonationalist or anything similar and run for office.
>>1522128then how is the federal government currently overrun with fascist ethnonationalists
>>1522130Ethnonationalism means you want your own country to be one ethnic demographic anon. White christian conservatives jerking themselves off about how many black people are in their party aren't ethnonationalists.
>>1522131sorry anon, but we have eyes
>>1522132I'm glad you call everything ethnonationalist fascism. The less voters take you seriously, the better.
>>1522133you sure are a melodramatic shill
>>1522131>Ethnonationalism means you want your own country to be one ethnic demographic anon....yeah?
>>1522142...but why pick a race you don't belong to and hates people your color?
>>1522128Trump and the republicans are effectively fascists.And because they've run things so badly, the generational brainwashing that socialism is bad is actually breaking.Will trump stage another coup, we shall see.
>>1522153>the generational brainwashing that socialism is bad is actually breakingActual batshit opinion. Socialists killed more humans than fascist, that's why sane people dislike it.
>>1522131Why would they be jerking themselves off? Maybe they celebrate token blacks because? Come on Anon, I know you can connect the dots.
1522132>weHi, esl shill.Subhuman fascists killed more humans than Socialists ever will, despite any & all retarded claims to the contrary by rightards: subhumans that will never be listened to because lying is in their inferior DNA. That's why Norway sends UK a Xmas tree every year since 1945. And Denmark is the happiest country on the planet.Democratic Socialism doing infinitely more for humans than inferior rightardism ever will.
>>1522153Socialist and fascist have no meaning because of people like you. What the fuck even is a socialist now? All of the progressive Democrats that are self proclaimed socialists are just crony capitalists and their idea of socialism is importing millions of third worlders and putting them on welfare
>>1522199>Socialist and fascist have no meaning because of people like you.Projection, probably.
Socialists are superior and fascists have no meaning because of inferior subhuman rightards. What the fuck even is a migger now, but a miserable little pile of retardation? All of the Republicans are just self-serving capitalists and their idea of being anti-immigration is importing millions of third worlder H1Bs and paying them peanuts.
>>1522110>id rather have the oldest blood than a Socialist.if tRump keeps up all this good work, you may be seeing some old blood spilled.PS: I'm a pacifist and a spectator, this is why I voted for tRump.
>>1522153>Trump and the republicans are effectively fascists.No, they are not. Not even remotely. Fascism is a very specific political model. >the generational brainwashing that socialism is bad is actually breaking.No, not really. DSA is only winning deep blue areas that are already very progressive (and always have been). And yes, socialism is objectively an inferior economic model.
>>1522348do you suck billionaire cock for the flavor? what's the appeal, exactly
>>1522349I dont think about, or care about, billionaires at all. I think about myself and how your policies will have a direct negative consequence on my economic prospects.
>>1522349It was millionaires until Bernie became a millionaire. Now its billionaires. Its always "someone has more than me and thats not fair". Which is no way to run the most advanced economy on the planet.
>>1522351>i don't thinkyou could've just stopped there. it is a wonder you haven't been replaced by a bot yet
>>1522355>no argumentYeah, that's what I thought.
>>1522359you don't think, esl shill. and there is no argument, maga is fascism with american idiosyncrasies
>esl schizo thinks he's going to get a (you)
>>1522354>It was millionaires until Bernie became a millionaire. Now its billionaires. Its always "someone has more than me and thats not fair".Bernie becoming a millionaire doesn't disprove anything. The argument was never "millionaires bad because someone has more money than me." The argument shifted because the economy shifted. A million dollars used to be an unimaginable fortune; now billion-dollar fortunes are common among the ultra-rich. The scale of wealth concentration changed, so the criticism changed with it.
>>1522345Oh rly?!
>>1522368>Bernie becoming a millionaire doesn't disprove anythingBernie spent his entire career using the same rhetoric he does now about billionaires against millionaires. Then he became a millionaire and so he started talking about billionaires. >A million dollars used to be an unimaginable fortuneBernie first took office in 1981. $1 million in 1981 is worth $3.5 million today. Bernie is worth $2-2.5 million based on his disclosures.
>>1522203Tell me what a modern socialist is and which politicians fit into that category. >Hard mode: No ad homs or fallacies>Nightmares mode: no changing the subject or deflecting >Impossible mode: just answer the question
>>1522393>Tell me what a modern socialistUsually mix of brown immigrants or the children of brown immigrant and downwardly mobile middle class white kids madling that their degrees don't confer the prestige or income that they thought it would. >which politicians fit into that category.Any and all associated with DSA.
>>1522393I don't know.
>>1522440No one knows because they're shapeshifters.
>>1522446And they really love Islam.
>>1522154>>1522199>>1522348>Fascists seething that socialism is now actually getting a foothold in America.Your corpo masters are going to give you the boot since you lost the narrative.BTW, the socialist won. Looks like New York wasn't a fluke, and people want their rights back against the billionaires.
>random astroturfed commies in the news 4norasinWho the fuck cares? Is this only being reported because the ADL didn't like that they don't worship Israel?I cannot care about a 3rd party that has 0 congressmen and isn't running in my district. Might as well report about Vermin Supreme.
>>1522483You’ll be glad to know that this thread can no longer be bumped onto the front page anymore.
>>1522453>criticize socialism>get called a fascistMaybe I just don't want to be put against the wall by comrade Jamal because I don't want to house thirty illegal immigrants in my living room?
>>1522530>Maybe I just don't want to be put against the wall by comrade Jamal because I don't want to house thirty illegal immigrants in my living room?Pretty sure nothing like that has ever happened in any socialist country that wasn't under military occupation by forces from the country the illegal immigrants were coming from.Have you considered not inventing nonsensical scenarios to be scared of?
>>1522453>socialism is now actually getting a foothold in America.In some deep blue highly progressive districts. Wow. Huge.
>>1522657Are you familiar with Solares?In Cuba they ate the rich, seized all their property, and turned their former mansions into multiple tenement housinghttps://www.featureshoot.com/2016/07/a-rare-glimpse-inside-cubas-tenement-houses/
>>1522657>nonsensical scenariosGo watch the movie Doctor Zhivago. I'm not doing the regular drive-by partisan political shitposting faggotry, I want you to go actually watch the movie.
>nonsensical scenarios>Braveheart>set in Scotland, but filmed in Ireland>produced by & starring Mel Gibson playing William Wallace>geographical lies by a geographical schizophrenic: an Australian who thinks he's American larping as a Scotsman>The Patriot>central role that doesn't know who he actually is in US history larped by an Australian that thinks he's AmericanEven Russell Crowe speaks with an Australian accent. He doesn't pretend to be something he isn't.>watch the movie>Dr. Zhivago>an Egyptian man and a British woman are RussiansChecks out.>at least Downfall was made in Berlin>get called a fascist>Hitler was an illegal immigrant from AustriaDid Col. Tom Parker have the legal right to live in America?No "maybe" about it. You're just inventing nonsensical scenarios to be frightened of, 1522954.
