Socialist congressional candidate Merat Quiros claims she comes from a generation of “proud black socialists”, defends political ideology and vows she will fight for “systemic” change.
“To me, socialism is the roads we drive on, the schools we send our kids to, the firehouses we turn to in times of crisis,” Quiros, who defeated 15-term Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District primary this summer, said in an interview with Eboni Taylor, vice president of the Highland Project.
Socialism, Quiros continued, is also “about extending that security and dignity into our health care, into our workplaces, into our homes, and ensuring that in the richest, most powerful country on earth, we have access to those basic dignity.”
She then claimed to come from “generations of proud black socialists and activists and warriors who have been pointing to the fact that, you know, racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined.”
“It’s our responsibility to hold these institutions accountable to respect our dignity and our basic rights, and in order to change these things, you know, these piecemeal efforts are not enough,” she said, adding that she would be “proud” to fight for what she called “serious systemic change.”
Quiros, whose platform includes a Transgender Bill of Rights, also said in an interview with PBS The Wire with Margaret Hoover that socialism Fulfills the ideas outlined in America’s founding documents. She actually said, “There’s nothing more American than socialism.”
“I think there’s nothing more American than embracing an economic philosophy that, as the evidence shows, is the only economic philosophy that truly delivers things like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” Quiros said. “I really can’t.”
Quiros also asserts that socialism has proven to embody the values of the Declaration of Independence better than capitalism.
“You know, when we talk about capitalism, one of the things people talk about about capitalism as a theory is that it’s responsible for lifting the American people out of poverty,” she said, referring to “Social Security programs.”
Notably, Quiros also equates the “freedom” to stop an unborn baby’s heartbeat with “economic freedom,” making abortion a key part of her socialist platform and demanding guaranteed ability to murder unborn babies.
“It’s not enough to talk about protecting reproductive freedom,” her platform reads, using the left-wing term “reproductive freedom” as a euphemism for baby murder.
“We need to guarantee that,” she continued, adding, “Reproductive freedom is also economic freedom.”
“It’s the freedom to decide when and if to start a family, to continue working, to plan for the future. No one should have their body, future or freedom controlled by politicians. It’s time we made reproductive freedom a constitutional right,” she argued.
The socialist’s platform goes beyond the murder of the unborn, for in her world “reproductive freedom” also includes “gender-affirming care” – genital mutilation surgeries, hormonal treatments and puberty blockers to “affirm” the delusions of gender-deformed patients.
Quiros will face Republican Christy Peterson in November.