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She must be just as much of the people as pelosi, right?
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Let's interview everyone that has a grudge with Susan Collins.
No? We can only interview every ex girlfriend, guy that's willing to say something negative, and Republican friend of a friend that knows the grassroots guy. Huh, I wonder why.
billionaires who made their money in alternative investments, including hedge funds and private equity."
Wut. Since when are hedge funds alternative investments?
Planter was the only candidate whose website had the word "genocide" so he got my vote
Yet tankies will still continue to focus their vitriol on Platner...
Everything Harris or Biden related: "genocide is genocide!" "There's no such thing as a little genocide!"
Everything Platner: "what's genocide? He has a tattoo!"
All others in Democratic party (and Bernie somehow): "controlled opposition!"
He's problematic, maybe? Probably? What he isn't is Susan "he's learned his lesson" Collins.
Waiting for a perfect candidate with a squeaky clean record is an exercise in futility.
The only way someone gets old enough to run for political office while having enough knowledge and experience to actually be capable of doing the job, without having ever made any mistakes that one's opponents can dig up for their mudslinging campaigns, is to take no risks, be non-controversial, a chameleon, totally performative and insincere. That's how you end up with these robotic-sounding DNC stars.
What's important is whether someone learned from their mistakes and has shown themselves capable of improving. There's this weird essentialist idea floating around in people's heads that once someone has made a mistake, that mistake is fundamentally who they are as a person and they should be judged for it for the rest of their lives. And honestly, if that mentality takes root and grows, it could lead to a very dystopian world. It's just one more part to add to the total surveillance state we're already sliding towards.
"But we need someone electable, someone both sides like!"
Yeah no, the "both sides" these people are referring to is the defensive and offensive wing of the same group.
You cant win elections appealing to "both sides".
You can, if you're appealing to the 1% of each side
https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-backing-collins-list/
The list it sources says 97 for her and 5 for the opponent.
I thought she dropped out?
That was Janet Mills, the current Governor. She was also running in the race to unseat Collins' run for a seventh term as Senator.
In 1936, Roosevelt was elected despite millionaires pouring money into Hoover's campaign.
Voting is important.
If it wasn't, they wouldn't make it so hard to vote or try to stop you. It unfortunately isn't very effective when people are complacent. But when people are pissed, even stacked decks and rigging won't hold ultimately.
That's why perpetual whiplash is baked into the system. People get complacent when things are going good, which is when the opposition's momentum is at its strongest.
4-8 years later the other side is the one that gets complacent as their opposition gets fired up.
Rinse and repeat.
The algorithm is simple. Watch who the billionaires back, then vote for the other option.
To them, losing the "progressives can't win purple states" narrative would be a catastrophe.
Not only can progressives win in purple states, I bet they can win in these supposedly "red" states that have been abandoned by the Dems in recent years. Progressive takeover of the Democratic Party needs to happen ASAP.
We need a Left version of the Tea Party
I think it's already happening. People are tired of the current leadership who have proven themselves deaf to the needs of the working class. They've just been stringing people along with performativism and virtue signaling, but people have definitely woken up to that in recent years.
Also, establishment Dems' catastrophic failures in last election followed by a series of progressive wins is a good signal. Progressives are demonstrating their electability, and that momentum will only build from here on. It will become increasingly harder for Democratic Party leadership to stifle the progressive caucus.
Also, the new DNC chairman is at least nominally progressive. We'll see how he does in two years. Till then all we can do is hope and wait and vote.
I agree. I don't think the actual silent majority thinks "that guy's too far right" or "that lady's too far left," they ask "which one's gonna help with my problems?"
A traitor to the United States of America.
Jesus Christ, Maine.
Always has been
