Graham Platner Loses Washington’s Vote

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And yet the era of smoothgroin politicians is coming to an end

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Washington Monthly editor Bill Scher declared that “Mills should get back in the race,” referring to the 78-year-old governor — favored by party leaders like Chuck Schumer — who suspended her primary campaign in April after getting her clock cleaned by Platner so badly she’s probably still shitting pieces of her dentures out.

LOL. Sure, Bill. That’s what people really want, an old Blue MAGA who is comfortable letting LLM companies take your land, water, power, and your job. All to make a few billionaires more money they’ll never actually live to spend anyway.

No wonder Graham’s running away with this thing.

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It may be declining somewhat but I am not sure it’s coming to an end. I mean CA is stepping up to elect the next smoothgroin in Becerra…

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The author of this piece is clearly clueless about the current state of the US.

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Honestly, the fact that the establishment doesn’t like him is a huge mark in his favor. The establishment also doesn’t like AOC, Tlaib, Pressley, Sanders, or many others in the CPC.

Yeah, he’s got some shit in his past, but pretty much everything I’ve seen from Platner in the context of his candidacy indicates to me that he’s done his best to move beyond that, and that he cares about the right things in the right directions these days. Sure, he could turn out to be a Fetterman or Sinema later… but I’d be a bit shocked if he did. Humans aren’t perfect; they learn and change. Politicians who claim to be perfect make me deeply fucking suspicious, because it’s honestly just far more likely that they’re simply better at deadass lying to people and hiding their shit.

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The question you have to ask is do you believe whatever the truth of this most recent public relations firestorm around Platner ends up being… that it will have any actual bearing over whether he will pursue the policies he says he will for people in Maine?

It isn’t about him being perfect, especially in his past. Voters in Maine care about what the impact of their vote will be, character assassination only goes so far when you don’t offer a vision with specific policies like Platner has.

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That’s more or less exactly what I’m saying. The people in this community who are refusing to consider that Platner might actually be a decent and effective and viable progressive political candidate sound a whole fucking lot like the deeply frustrating establishment-backed narrative that Mills tried to take him out with - to the extent that I seriously question the motives of people who insist on purity testing him like that. I would vastly prefer a candidate who admits to their flaws and shows they learned from them than someone who claims to be purer than the driven snow - largely because no human is perfect. Insisting candidates be The Perfect Progressive is unrealistic and self-defeating, and will lead to progressivism in US politics evaporating entirely. “No true Scotsman”, etc.

By all means, call people out for legitimate issues, but don’t insist on creating divisive shit purely for the purpose of creating divisive shit.

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It shocks me that this Nazi symbol wearing civilian killing merc got this far.

The left in the US is fucked.

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