CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was asked whether all the controversies surrounding US Senate candidate Graham Platner mean he doesn’t “pass the character test.” Murphy offered a subtly radical answer: “Character involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country.” It was an echo of Rep. Ro Khanna, who credited Platner with “having the character to stand up against the war in Iran, against genocide, and against an unfair & lopsided economy.”
What’s radical here is that Murphy and Khanna are suggesting the possibility of a new political reality, one that I think the affluent class of New York and DC media and political elites literally cannot process: A reality in which many voters are so economically pulverized and politically disillusioned that they now define “character” in a politician solely as whether or not they are single-mindedly focused on destroying oligarchy and ending corruption.
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After all, if the last few depressing decades have led you to the understandable conclusion that almost everyone in politics is corrupt and disgusting, then come election time, you are going to be more likely to support whichever politicians you think will most blow up the entire system in the way you want it blown up — regardless of whether you think they are “good” or “bad” people on an individual level.
^ Centrists and the general consultant class of the DNC are violently unable to believe this is how the majority feels to the point that they handed power over to outright fascists in order to prevent progressives winning on a platform that messaged to this sentiment in a visionary, positive way. It would have publicly proved what we already know, they are irrelevant and terminally obsessed with a vision of the past that does not exist any longer if it ever did.
The text message bullshit is transparent mud slinging and they are desperate as FUCK
Dude wore a Nazi symbol on his chest for two decades while he slaughtered civilians in the middle east first for America and then again for private interests because he didn’t get his fill.
That kind of person cannot be trusted.
Who said trust?
Why always “Nazi symbol”? Why is it never referred to by it’s name. It has a clear name that’s no harder to type or say than Nazi symbol. Death’s head, totenkoph. To be clear, the reason no one does this is that among symbols used by the Nazis. The deaths head is very unknown publicly. If you were to call it by name people would have to look it up. If people looked it up they would understand how someone could not know what it was. How an edgy young adult on deployment and drunk could make a stupid decision to get a tattoo. And that wouldn’t do would it. People would rather have everyone assume it was one of the well known ones. That getting it was an informed concuous choice. Not reckless ignorance. Its all about misrepresentation. Much like most the rest of your comment.
Somehow I don’t trust any politician with a totenkopf tattoo to fight oligarchy or economic injustice.
Plantar raises red flags for me too. Gives me fetterman flashbacks.
I’m curious who you would like to win the race though. Plantar isn’t ideal but from the options I’ve heard of he seems like the best option. Maybe you know of somebody I haven’t heard of yet?
You don’t wear that shit for as long as he did without knowing. And he wasn’t in a rush to get it removed until his campaign started.
Weak
