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In reply to the discussion: Is Graham Platner going to be Maine's Mamdani? [View all]flashman13
(2,536 posts)If not Platner who then? Another focus group approved moderate, vanilla flavored nonentity? That's what it sounds like to me.
If you look at the polling, I would say the people of Maine have listened to Platner and have made their decision. Platner buried Mills, the DNC establishment approved candidate. That must tell you something.
Everything I have seen in every special election or small town school board election since 1/20/25 tells me that the American people have had their fill of status quo candidates spouting the usual platitudes. They want someone who has dirt under their finger nails and knows what it is to work for a living. Think AOC for just a moment as an example of that desire.
We are at that Roosevelt moment where people want to completely overturn a system the is skewed toward wealth and corporatism and is focused on the needs of We the People. Get on board.