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Calrification, this comment is for general readers, not targetted to the person I am replying to. It is meant for additional context and vocalizing my opinion of Graham Platner.
There was also him being on a podcast interview hosted by a questionable channel. But my thinking is Platner is not a career politician, and is just kinda ignorant politically speaking. People (particularly media and establishment Dems) keep trying to paint him as a nazi. Which yeah, if you only looked at the tattoo and podcast I feel that would be a reasonable conclusion to make. But Platner is also outspoken about queer rights (including trans rights), supports universal healthcare, and other very progressive views and actions (if I remember correctly he was/is a DSA member). No nazi is going to be supporting those actions, particularly supporting trans people. My personal analysis of him is he is an average blue-collar working class Mainer, and that comes with a lot of complexity and nuance that career politicians do not have, and that voters are not used to seeing in political candidates.
Now that being said, I am an anarchist. I do not vote for people, I only vote on individual issues. Whether or not I like Platner, I am not likely to vote for anyone in the first place. Even if somehow I do end up voting for him, I would quickly accept my wrong doing if it turned out he was an anti-semite or nazi. However I do not think that is the case. I think he is a complicated and nuanced person with a complicated and nuanced past that he has grown and learned from. Its pretty clear from his past that he has undergone a pretty radical shift in his beliefs and politics and that growth should be applauded. He should be held accountable for his mistakes, but they should not permanently brand him.
I'm totally down with everything you're saying except that you're potentially not going to vote after you have seen what has happened.
Since you were kinder than the second person who replied to me, I will engage this in good faith. I expressed hesitation for not voting for Platner if he gets to the election (which is still up in the air, cause of the primaries). And as I told the other person, that is because he doesn't feel like a lesser of the two evils. I do not have to vote for genocide lite to avoid genocide pro, I can just not vote for genocide. Which I want to point out was the main reason for most people protest voting in the first place. We had told the Democrat Party for months that we would not vote for a candidate that was supporting Israel. And we were not quite about it. The Democratic Party did not listen, and people held true to the threats they made. The Democratic Party is at fault for American Fascism, not people who refused to vote between fascism lite and fascism pro.
I have more than just that reason, but I won't deny it was a major reason. Platner seems like an actually good candidate, and because that addressed a major issue I had with voting I now have reason to reconsider my position on voting.
If you want to change someone's mind on something, addressing their concerns, respecting their perspective, and working constructively is the best way to get someone to work and agree with you. Guilt tripping, scolding, and shaming on the other hand doesn't. Thats because it never addresses our concerns, only tries to combat us on our beliefs. Which, at least for myself, you are not going to change.
I share your frustration with the Democrats. They are too deep in the pockets of the corporations; but they are bendable and shame-able, which is something the Republicans are not.
Republicans alone are responsible for their parties policies, actions and attitudes.
If they were bendable and shameable they would have moved on the Palestine issue, but instead they stayed supporting Israel's genocide. But thats neither here nor there in terms of this specific situation, cause Graham Platner is condemning the genocide. We will see if he gets through the primaries. Still got time before the election to stew on whether I change my mind about voting