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.
insurgent left
Fuck off with that shit
Billionaire News strikes again
They’re trying to make these people look radical, when their platforms are centrist stuff most other western nations have done for decades. Her platform is universal healthcare, universal pre-k, building homes, not funding wars in the Middle East, and not taking money from big corporations and billionaires.
How is that radical?
In America, that is incredibly radical.
However, this is one of a string of incredible wins for the DSA, and I am very glad. As someone who has for a long time been despondent about electoral political change, it is a sign that the alternative - armed resistance and civil war - will not be necessary.
We should all support the DSA as much as we can if we do not want to see entire neighbourhoods on fire, civilians being slaughtered by the thousands, or all the other horrible shit that is inevitable in war.
I don’t think that came across as intended. This is the Guardian, the US left is basically right in the UK.
I think what they mean is the Democratic Socialists are insurgent from the standpoint of a small group growning quickly. The negative connotation might not have been intended.
The negative connotation might not have been intended.
Yeah the Guardian isn’t good with words. Probably just fucked it up on accident.
Yeah that’s deliberate and akin to the “cockroaches” propaganda in Rwanda. 2Ab42late.
Insurgent != Radical. Mainstream Dems don’t like this new social-democracy wave.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/mamdani-house-democrats-primary-elections
In this sense, it’s quite reasonable to qualify them as “insurgents” within the Democratic party.
Wait I was told voting never works and not to bother, wtf???
Well you see, the people saying that have an interest in you NOT voting, so they have to say that.
Some of the other people saying that were just out of hope, like me.
This example, and the other wins from the DSA, are giving me a bit of hope again.
Psuedo-leftists love to espouse this bullshit all the time.
They’re the same assholes who end masse refused to show up to their 2016 or 2020 primaries. Then they claimed the DNC rigged it from the start and Bernie couldn’t possibly have won (yes he fucking could have if more people turned out).
“Not voting sends a message.”
Yeah, it fuckin’ does.
Not voting votes for the winner.
2/3rds of American voters voted for Trump.
Both sides are the same. Fascism, not fascism. Social empathy, sociopathy, it’s all the same.
Don’t vote. Don’t try to change anything. Why bother. Just wallow in propaganda, it’s easier.
Diana DeGette was defeated by someone as old as her incumbency.
Love to see it. This is what should happen when you don’t pass the baton.
She was fired from her job for opposing genocide and supporting student protestors. Take that shitrael!
Glad Colorado realized that primaries are a thing, out here in Cali we’re struggling in that department
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.
Bad time to be an incumbent.
You reckon Bernie Sanders’ seat is in danger? I don’t think the problem is incumbents so much as refusal to to give folks what they’re looking for in a representative.
No, the anti-incumbency wave is coming from progressives and (formerly) centrist Democrats who are tired of the status quo and lack of progress. Bernie is progressive enough that he will probably not be primaried, though if he was it would surely be for a younger similar progressive.
Yea but he’s a Zionist, which for many is a hardline right now. He’s also just … old. I like Bernie generally, but he’s barely left of center.
Yea but he’s a Zionist
What the fuck are you smoking? Bernie Sanders has been one of thr first and loudest critics of Israel in the US government.
“I don’t know how you can have a permanent ceasefire with an organisation like Hamas which is dedicated to turmoil and chaos, and destroying the state of Israel" -Sanders. Yes, criticizing and demonizing the only organization actively fighting against this genocide…
“Israel has a right to defend itself” - Sanders.
“It is no longer good enough for us to be pro-Israel, I am pro-Israel…[Israel has] absolute right to live in peace and security”" - Sanders
Israel’s so-called rights are rooted in its colonial framework; Sanders’s attempt at equivalence between the colonised and the coloniser is evident even in the language used: the humanitarian versus the political.
“I think it is very important for everyone, but particularly for progressives, to acknowledge the enormous achievement of establishing a democratic homeland for the Jewish people after centuries of displacement and persecution,” -Sanders. This is literally Zionism.
Hundreds of his staffers had to beg him to call for ceasefire:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/bernie-sanders-former-staffers-palestine-gaza-israel-ceasefire
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/24/bernie-sanders-ceasefire-letter-israel/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cease-fire-gaza
Sanders refuses to call it a genocide: https://x.com/SDGMasterglass/status/1758513912427725233
When an audience member interrupted him and asked if Palestinians “have a right to resist,” Sanders, incensed by the interruption, yelled back, “Shut up! You don’t have the microphone!”
The truth is, whether you call it genocide or ethnic cleansing or mass atrocities or war crimes, the path forward is clear. We, as Americans, must end our complicity in the slaughter of the Palestinian people
United States of America cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children.
Over the last two years, Israel has not simply defended itself against Hamas. Instead, it has waged an all-out war against the entire Palestinian people.
What’s up with .ml users attacking people like Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani so often?
They’re leftier-than-thou, for one. For two, any solution that doesn’t completely rewrite the rules of society and production is just fascism lite. For three, I’m not saying they’re a hub of russian disinfo, I’m just saying what they argue for - whether practically or rhetorically - is almost always in line with russia’s interests. Although that is purely coincidental, I’m sure.
What’s up with .ml users
ad hominem.
attacking people like Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani so often?
Criticism isn’t “attacking”.
Oh yea, and all those quotes you put there, was because we pressured these people with criticism.
Nicely .ml’d
Yea but he’s a Zionist,
When discussing electoral politics, especially in America, I’d suggest adjusting your scale of where “the center” is. Also, Bernie may be a liberal zionist. But he also is promoting and endorsing people far to his left. That speaks volumes to what he wants to be built after he is gone.
I’m merely commenting why he may be a target of getting primaried. I’m DSA and a ML … Bernie has onboarded countless thousands to DSA and socialism in general. For that we can thank him. He has shifted his stance recently if I remember, but he’s been staunchly a zionist in the past.
he’s been staunchly a zionist in the past.
Provide citations and sources, you’re tslking out of your ass, tankie.
https://lemmy.ml/post/49472329/26470958
Blocked for the tankie comment.
My friend someone in DSA should know Bernie would never be primaried by a DSA candidate. A DSA candidate would be endorsed by Bernie when he decides to retire. He’s like 500 years old and the most liked politician in the country. If the DSA started talking shit publicly about Bernie; I would be more concerned that some CIA infiltrated it’s leadership. It would be the worst political move I could think of.
DSA has codified anti-zionism into its bylaws. There is also an expulsion process (restorative rather than punitive). We also have the ability to rescind endorsements of those who do not follow our anti-zionist or bds platform. The point is to avoid unyielding fealty to DSA members in perpetuity even if they do not abide by our platform.
Conveniently, Bernie has finally shifted his stance last year. I think you’re consistently missing my point. I don’t think Bernie is in any danger. I’m simply acknowledging the situation in which he would be, which isn’t that much of a stretch considering his past stances.
If the DSA started talking shit publicly about Bernie
Plenty of DSA and other Socialists criticize Bernie. The reality is, he’s not that far left of center. That’s fine, DSA is big tent, and there’s plenty of room on the Dem ballot line for sort-of-left-of-center. I’ve acknowledged his role in onboarding countless people to DSA and Socialism. I’ve also laid out his shortcomings. What else do you want from me?
For what it’s worth, the late 80s to early 90s Republicans were as useless to Americans as the establishment democrats are to the left.
The conservatives that overthrew those establishment people and took control of the Republican Party (Newt Gingrich and the rest of his scumbag traitors) did so by running conservative primary candidates against sitting, long-time congressmen…and winning. They also refused to wait in line, and ran for leadership positions (Speaker, Maj Leader, Whip, and committee chairs) and won those, too.
They were also called insurgents at the time.
We really should be using the 1994 model. Pick 10 simple things we can all (70%+) agree on, and all democrats, left or center, run on the platform.
Stuff like “No corruption” “No more corporate elites bribing Congress” “No more bribes for the Supreme Court” etc. Don’t get into the controversial stuff. Just pick the easy stuff, like “Everyone should get to fucking eat food and have medicine”
You’ll see what an insurgency can do with that simple model.
How about “no fucking kids or committing genocide for another country”?
GOOD. DeGette is a POS.
Degette can take her Israel money and pound sand.
This started as a ripple in New York and we are now riding a wave of change. Hopefully this will become an unstoppable tsunami across the nation.
Ohhhhh yeeeaahhhhhh
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Get wrecked corporate stooges
