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Maine’s Socialist Senate Candidate Calls For ‘Political Intimidation’ To Pass ‘Medicare For All’

By POLITICS COMMENTARY

Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine, has had his share of calls for political violence. In a collection of recently discovered and deleted social media posts, it became known last month that Platner holds the view that violence is essential to bring about political change. In one of those posts, he said if people “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history,” and in another, he said “an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice.”

Platner has returned, and he is urging for increased political violence towards politicians who are against socialized medicine:

“We need to be able to turn people out to flood their offices. Frankly, I want people to follow them around and don’t let them have a public dinner without getting yelled at. Because that’s power. That’s real power,” Platner said.

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Platner justified those tactics as a way of building “secondary power.” He said they’re a proven form of political pressure and that “American history tells us that that’s exactly the power that we have.”

“We also have to build secondary power. Real power of organization, the power to turn people out, the power to shut things down, frankly, the power to impose costs,” Platner said. “If we can’t impose costs, then they’ll never listen to us, because they won’t care.”

Platner has made Medicare for All a centerpiece of his campaign. His economic platform also calls for a major expansion of Social Security benefits—including the elimination of the payroll tax cap—a “billionaire minimum tax,” and steep increases in capital gains and corporate taxes. He’s said he wants to use “the tax code to get the money back that was stolen from the working people of this country.”

Yes, because we all know those tax dollars go back to the working people and not some government coffers.

The hard, socialist/communist left is slowly taking over the Democratic Party, and there won’t be any ‘compromising’ or ‘getting along with’ any of them when their first and only political tactic is to bully/attack/harm opponents to get their way.

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