re: Platner - But if personal imperfection disqualifies a candidate, Washington DC should empty itself immediately. [View all]

Oliver Kornetzke-

The same apparatus pearl-clutching over Platner right now protected people who voted for catastrophic wars, wrote healthcare bills with the insurance industry at the table, watched wages and housing and rural life rot for 40 years while calling it responsible governance, and still hasn’t managed to hold Donald Trump, his administration, or the Epstein client list of child-fucking sex traffickers accountable for a single goddamn thing. Apply the standard universally or admit you’re not applying a standard. You’re protecting a class. A class with a documented 40-year track record of delivering for billionaire donors and not working class people.

What Platner offers that no DNC substitute can: an attacking theory of the race. Not “we are the reasonable alternative.” Not “we respect the institutions Collins disrespects.” An actual argument with teeth and with real historical weight about power: who has it, who bought it, who writes themselves into every bailout, every crisis, every legislative fix. Who gets called when the bill is being drafted. Who gets thanked in the press release after it passes. Platner can make Collins the face of a rotting system rather than a politician with whom Democrats merely have a personnel dispute. That is a different campaign and a harder one to run against.
The DNC model asks voters to trust the people who already have power. Platner’s model asks voters to take it back.
Democrats don’t need another fucking candidate who reassures billionaire donors that nothing fundamental will change. They need one who can convince voters that something finally might.

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