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I appreciate your perspective, but please note I'm not attempting to promote apathy. I've said regularly to go out and vote, even for imperfect candidates, and I understand why people would vote for him, but he has removed several parts of his platform after being publicly criticized for them. Below is an archived version of his website that has the following quotes:
Full disclosure, I have very little sympathy for our troops and see what they do as very different than working for MS or something. I'm not against them moving on from that life, but I don't think we should be supporting an increase in recruitment until we can get a handle on rape within the military, war crimes, and better options for civilians. If we keep investing in compensation for troops and vets it will be more and more tempting for the exact wrong kind of people (people who just need a paycheck). I know people in the military and they often went that route because there was no other options for them. We should have much higher recruitment standards. That should in part stop people who sign up and have no concept of right and wrong and do war crimes for fun.
I also do not support the VA. There should not be a two tier system for healthcare. If a vet qualifies for Medicare or Medicaid then they should have access, but we need Medicare for all and a VA stands in the way of that.
To be clear I don't care too much about the concept of military spending in general. A military is needed after all, but I'd rather money be spent on corruption and waste than on more soldiers. As it stands now, I do not feel safer in a room with soldiers, so I don't like the idea of making more of them.
To be as fair as possible to him, he does say he wants to get rid of military spending fraud and stop forever wars, but that seems like an extension of his want to devote more spending to the actual military.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827163707/https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform
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