This man is HORRIBLE and we should just CONTINUE electing Susan Collins because EVENTUALLY Trump MIGHT Learn his Lesson and that's BETTER then someone who MIGHT actually Care about his Constituents!
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- Gets elected.
- Proceeds to inside trade.
Considering he’s coming from a rather humble profession completely unrelated to politic and hasn’t done anything of the sort yet: maybe pump the brakes on the wild, unjustified pessimism until he actual does something that’s worthy of being pessimistic about. This guy is the caliber of politician we should be lauding and supporting.
Why? (One word question, but sincere)
Let me answer your question with another question: if you immediately assume bad faith and maliciousness of literally anyone who tries to get into politics, regardless of their motivations and beliefs, what does that say about your own opinions of the (small d) democratic process, and representative democracies in general?
why is he running for senator, not governor or representative? Why not a city council? Why not state senate or house? How is he going to introduce legislation with zero experience in government service? He needs to answer those questions, but his answer is "Im a successful businessman and I will just use morality to introduce bills! I know legal text and thats why I am prepared to fight all of the lawyers who make up the republican side. I have a history of working with others to bring about change by... digging up oysters and getting rich by it?"
Senators are legislators, not "leaders" who make decisions. If he wants to make main prosperous through his decision making skills, thats the fucking governors job.
Can he read this and accurately vote for legislation around this legal text? That will benefit mainers? Does he even know how to read this? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1675b
That is just one fraction of the US legal code. aka the fucking law of land that republicans are using and abusing to bring about fascism. How can he weaponize it to stop them?
Because the DNC is manifestly incapable of enacting meaningful change, and often simply acts as captive opposition. Mamdani’s campaign is running on largely the same point.
mamdani isn't pretending to be a legislator either. He's actually doing something to benefit others with an actual plan. Becoming a legislator isn't a plan. This oyster farmers plan is to become a legislator to enact what new legislation? Who is his team of legal code experts to do his job for him? "I have legislation ready to help maine, for example I will introduce a new bill to do x y and z for mainers and can be achieved in a bipartisan manner because of my experience in a b and c" that is what a leader in legislation does. Oyster farmers just say "its time to end corruption by voting for me!"
If am a passionate progressive ( I am not, but let us pretend), how do I decide which candidates to promote in the primaries? Each candidate I wish to support takes my limited time and resources, and time away from family and work. Even if I believe in good candidates, how do I not get fooled given there is already a long proven line of con artists? Should I look at someone's personal history to see how they stand out from others who let me down? (this is what I asked, dear reader, in all those comments previously)
Catchy message; but upper class conservative.
If platforming universal healthcare and economic change is conservative then sign me the duck up as a staunch conservative. People are attacking him for having a business but that doesn't make him the enemy. Plenty of good solid people have a business and pump the money back into their employees and community. It's the billionaires, the ultra wealthy who think they can play god that are the problem.
I swear, "progressives" can be the most backwards people and their own worst enemy all in the name of ideological purity.
Socialists aren’t “progressive” liberals. They’re socialists. We don’t think the problem is the billionaires: we think the problem is capitalism itself. It’s private ownership of the means of production, which is foundational to liberalism.
Plenty of good solid people have a business and pump the money back into their employees and community.
This is petit bourgeois “job creator” talk. Those good solid people exploit their employees’ labor. This isn’t a moral judgement, it’s simply how capitalism works.
You're arguing with someone from .ml, it's not worth the effort
I learned a while back that arguing with someone is less about convincing that specific person, and more about convincing the bystanders who read/hear the argument.
It's actually made it less frustrating for me to engage with people online. The person I'm taking to I know will never change their mind, but someone else might that I don't know about.
I am not progressive, or democrat.
I do believe in better health care, of course. But, let us count how many candidates who promised this before and have failed to keep their campaign promises to even do the minimal effort?
How is this person different from the normal grifter type? Are there mitigating stories about his character or background that shows one should give him a doubt?
Fuck it, dont vote for anyone ever again, I guess
Or find ways to make a difference.
You seem like you're shitting on others trying to make a difference.
Please just don't have a stroke Graham.
Read a bit further. Looks like Katie Porter's former chief of staff also running: https://electjordan.com/#issues
Difference I can see right now is that Graham Platner is calling for M4A, Jordon is calling to "protect and strengthen Obamacare". Kind-of a tell on Jordon's part. Also i don't know what to make of Jordon's line "Its time for courage, not concern". Like bruh its long past time for concern.
Any Mainers care to weigh in?
Not a Mainer but that line is poking at Collins, who has developed a reputation for expressing concerns about things and then lacking the courage to vote against them.
Just let me know which one of them has the chutzpah to call Israeli's actions a genocide.
If you don't have the "courage" for that much, then you're going to be dead weight when its time for a domestic Truth and Reconciliation Commission to uncover the dirt in our own backyard.
Platner told Zeteo that Israel's U.S.-backed assault on Gaza, which was a flashpoint in New York City's Democratic primary, is "the ultimate moral test of our time."
My money is on Graham for that, considering he's directly calling for Schumer to step down. My money would go to Jordon calling for "defensive aid only", but its early days.
That's a pretty solid platform
This was brilliantly stated and you've inspired me! Thank you for sharing this with us all. This is just what everyone needs to hear.
Heck yeah! I don't care what party they are of, so long as they are true Americans like I think I am I see no issue voting for them if they got something positive to contribute to our country.
We're in a WTF moment. Things like reducing funding for women's health, WTF! Eliminating EPA strength to allow pollution and endangered animal hunting, destroying data about the climate change and vaccines, removing funding from new advanced vaccine technology, removing innocent migrants, etc. Holy fuck, WTF are they doing!!!???!!!
I know what we're all thinking.
A repeat of Fetterman. But we have to take a chance on people like this. Or we're gonna spin our wheels in the mud forever. Never gonna make any ground on the bastards wrecking everything.
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