How to get power

Recently, there has been a wave of Democratic Socialist candidates displacing their usually much older establishment predecessors. The results of Colorado primaries, I found quite symbolic. A sitting congresswoman DeGette got primaried by a 40 (fucking forty!) year younger Kiros.

(What I found especially crazy is that Kiros was literally born in a year that DeGette first assumed office)

And, that may be a good point for starting a conversation on the nature of political power. Or, more practically, on how to win it, pragmatically speaking.

Because some of the DSA candidates who won, indeed, tend to be extremely extremely strong. Like, extraordinarily strong, by any standard. But I can’t say that about everyone. Some of them are just alright, and that’s it. Nothing extraordinary.

So, it’s not about every single candidate being super strong individual player. It is about something else. These guys have won (a good deal of) political power, and won it at early age without necessarily being extraordinarily politicians themselves.

How?

First, I will give you a bit of theory, then, a bit of practical advice