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So sick of hearing about Graham Platners dumb goofy ass (hexbear.net)

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I’m curious what the general consensus is here cause I am so so fucking tired of listening to people talk about Graham Platner.

I’m amenable to the possibility of him being decent but I am not holding my breath over it.

it’s just another perfect example of the inherent flaws in “the left” ever hitching its wagon to the fucking Democratic Party.

That phrase “the left” makes my skin crawl in general. I am so tired of having to constantly wrest the identity of a historic movement away from this or that charlatan, it is humiliating to me and my peers to invest faith and trust in these people.

But without a party, who can we say represents “the left”? With the crimes of chattel slavery and now Palestinian genocide, is this party really the vehicle?

As far as I’m concerned any Democratic politician has a massive bar to clear for any support from me. More importantly I think we can point to some disturbingly clear examples that the institutional forces of Democratic Party politics easily overawing any individual representative of “the left”

I don’t like to disparage people choosing optimism in general. It just seems so glaringly obvious that without an enforcement mechanism outside of the Democratic Party there is very little to create any kind of actual accountability and there is nothing but unlimited reward for participation and substance-less posturing.

Wonder what the PSL is up to! Wish them nothing but good things.

Curious where everyone is besides sick of this. WHO gives a fuck! It’s Maine! Hardly anyone lives there! Have you ever seen a black fly? Too scary in general this is just par for the course

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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Platner is kind of the perfect embodiment of the Left's issue with the state of electoralism in this country.

He's very obviously the lesser evil compared to Collins. And you can even make a strategic voting argument that him winning might actually be a catalyst towards moving the Dems in a direction that materially improves people's live. But not enough to fix any fundamental problems, so of course the fascists will take back power again in a few years and undo all that and march us further down the path to Fourth Reichdom.

...and the price you pay for that is you've gotta vote for the unrepentant war criminal.

Oh, and there's like a 80/20 chance that he's just a disingenuous ghoul, or will simply be assimilated into the Dem blob. I honestly think we're going to look back a few years and wonder why in the hell we cared about this guy at all.