Supposedly 'progressive 'anti-imperialist' candidate for Maine senate, Graham Platner, was a Blackwater mercenary in Afghanistan in 2018, and his policy plat...
And? We have to take a risk on people like this or we’ll never get anywhere. Love it or hate it these are the kind of people who will bring in new voters.
Dry academics don’t excite. They don’t make people ask questions. They dont bring in new voters. They have their place. But rural Maine? This is the kind of guy we need.
Is the risk of another Fetterman there? Of course. It always will be. But if we don’t take that risk we’ve already lost. We’ll never make any ground and we’ll reroute all those potential voters into the welcoming arms of reactionaries.
If you think it’s okay to throw other under the bus for your healthcare then the same will happen to you. Trump is hard at work making your wishes a reality.
Regional voices work. They speak to the common issues of their region. Of their people.
Do you know more than I do about what issues fuckin oyster farmers care about? Because I know precisely fuckall about it. Can you speak to those people in terms they understand?
I can hunt. I can fish. I can raise a garden. I can raise animals. I can forage. I can tan hides. I will be fine no matter what comes.
Good luck to you.
I want this country to fall anyway. I’d prefer a soft landing. For us to come out the other side about as relevant to international politics as post-brexit UK. A mostly harmless pariah state. But collapse works too. Same result. Just bloodier.
And? We have to take a risk on people like this or we’ll never get anywhere. Love it or hate it these are the kind of people who will bring in new voters.
Dry academics don’t excite. They don’t make people ask questions. They dont bring in new voters. They have their place. But rural Maine? This is the kind of guy we need.
Is the risk of another Fetterman there? Of course. It always will be. But if we don’t take that risk we’ve already lost. We’ll never make any ground and we’ll reroute all those potential voters into the welcoming arms of reactionaries.
Graham Platner doesn’t regret murdering brown people for the empire.
He regrets how inefficiently the US murdered brown people, wasting many precious taxpayer dollars while doing it.
He is campaigning on how much more efficiently he couid murder brown people for the empire.
If you think a politician cares about you any more than brown people they want to murder I’ve got very bad news for you.
I don’t like it. It would be weird if anyone did. But this is The United States of America.
Universal Healthcare is controversial in this insane shithole.
We play the hand we’re dealt. Or we sit to the side and get played by someone else.
If you think it’s okay to throw other under the bus for your healthcare then the same will happen to you. Trump is hard at work making your wishes a reality.
Ok. Keep losing. (And I mean this equally to both BlueMAGA liberals and purity “leftists”)
I honestly don’t care. I gave up on electoralism a decade ago.
That must be why you’re so passionately advocating for him.
Regional voices work. They speak to the common issues of their region. Of their people.
Do you know more than I do about what issues fuckin oyster farmers care about? Because I know precisely fuckall about it. Can you speak to those people in terms they understand?
They farm Oysters at Blackwater? That’s crazy.
Ok. Keep losing. That’s your prerogative.
I can hunt. I can fish. I can raise a garden. I can raise animals. I can forage. I can tan hides. I will be fine no matter what comes.
Good luck to you.
I want this country to fall anyway. I’d prefer a soft landing. For us to come out the other side about as relevant to international politics as post-brexit UK. A mostly harmless pariah state. But collapse works too. Same result. Just bloodier.