Do yourselves a favor and give this a quick read... Graham Platner "In His Own Words" Because There's No Better Way To Understand Someone's True Self... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...aign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web
I'm calling it now: Secretary of Labor under another Dem (or some gig in the media) and he runs again in 2032. ^ God, can you believe the year 2032 is not that far off?
BTW, until I couldn't take in anymore I was the DP precinct chair fwiw in my area of Houston. Finally after a couple of years of trying found someone who would take it over. Hope you knock yourself out supporting the moderate respectable consultant curated types you find blameless for Trump and the current situation.
I like this article, even if it is from the milk toast Daily Kos which got its start from being sort of opposed to Gulf War. I like the artice, but I gave up on the milk toast Daily Kos when they were so against Bernie. For the real deal on Platner see: https://jacobin.com/2025/10/platner-maine-senate-reddit-media
You keep aiming your opinions at my opinions, which you obviously know nothing about. As for the Democratic Party, I've been involved myself in the past. These days, I send them what they ask for and need the most, money.
I don't know anything about you except you appear to be a moderate liberal who seems fairly content with the Democratic Party especially their foreign policies. I do think that the Clinton-Obama-Bidens do have quite a bit of the blame for MAGA and Trump rather than the left.
For the last several elections as many as 70% have wanted major change. As many as 15% of Trump voters voted for Obama once or twice. google it. These voters voted for major change yet Obama turned out to be largely a disappointing Clintonite. Obama was the ring master who helped to defeat Bernie and economic populism bringing us Biden and Kamala and a continuation of the disappointing status quo with the income and wealth flowing ever upward. You can't just keep blaming the current morass with many lower working class voting GOP i.e Trump purely on racism. I would add that racism is very much aggravated when one is suffering economically and wants to blame someone. This is reinforced by virtually all the media and nearly all politicians who are dependent on wealthy donors say your economic struggle has nothing to do with the wealthy paying dramatically less taxes for public goods like healthcare and education.
I actually have to say I have been impressed with the Dems.. They are mostly staying with from the Trump Circus and just handling business.. For the most part, they are preaching UNITY for all and again not veering towards the Trump stuff.. Even Jasmine and AOC have really not engaged as much as they have in the past.. This is what they should be doing.. Stay focus and don't get caught up in the Trump Drama, "Never argue with an Idiot, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience" T_Man
Graham Platner: “The anti-trans campaign in Maine is funded by an out-of-state billionaire to make sure we have this discussion and we don’t talk about raising his taxes. That’s why it exists. I think there are like two trans kids that compete in high school sports in Maine? There are 40K Mainers who are going to lose healthcare because of the lack of the ACA extension. One of those things seems very important and real to me. One of them seems like an invented culture war scare to keep people divided”
and that folks, is how you deal with that question............its designed to sow hate among us and he didn't hide from it, he took it on In my lifetime, I think I have met 3 trans folks, they didn't try to convert me, hit on me or bother me. I don't give 2 f`s what your sexual preferences are, what you do in the privacy of your own home does not affect me.
**** Mills, I hope the people of Maine can get rid of Collins but first things first. These corporate/moderate Dems have to go. "State lawmakers failed to override a veto from Gov. Janet Mills on a bill to make Maine the first state in the nation to impose a temporary ban on development of power-hungry data centers. Mills, a Democrat, also successfully vetoed a bill that would have automatically sealed the criminal records of many misdemeanor offenders who hadn't committed another crime in at least five years."
she’s also 78 years old go retire already and watch TV and play bingo…Why is your old ass still here?
I didn't know she was 78 years old, I also don't really keep up with Maine politicians to that degree. She shouldn't have ran in the first place unless it was just to dilute the Dem votes. Oh well, she'll be eating oatmeal and watching the Price is Right in a facility in a few years anyways...
