{"id":61846,"date":"2025-11-26T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61846"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:04:20","slug":"we-really-can-select-better-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61846","title":{"rendered":"We Really Can Select Better Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graham Platner is the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. On Monday, Legal Insurrection<\/a> posted an article about some of his recent statements.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

…his campaign manager fled the campaign to \u201cspend more time with family<\/a>\u201d after it was revealed that the political hopeful had Nazi symbolism as body art.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mainers should consider this a rare moment of truth in political advertising. Platner recently urged his supporters to publicly harass members of Maine\u2019s congressional delegation who oppose Medicare for All.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a town hall event in Windham, Maine, Platner stated that to advance progressive policies, his supporters must be willing to \u201cimpose costs\u201d on lawmakers who don\u2019t support the initiative. Free Beacon contributor Jessica Costescu has the details<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be able to turn people out to flood their offices. Frankly, I want people to follow them around and don\u2019t let them have a public dinner without getting yelled at. Because that\u2019s power. That\u2019s real power.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Platner justified those tactics as a way of building \u201csecondary power.\u201d He said they\u2019re a proven form of political pressure and that \u201cAmerican history tells us that that\u2019s exactly the power that we have.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe 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,\u201d Platner said. \u201cIf we can\u2019t impose costs, then they\u2019ll never listen to us, because they won\u2019t care.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a false argument promising free stuff that working Americans have to pay for.<\/p>\n

If we can get the government out of healthcare, we can go back to the days when healthcare was actually affordable. As an example (the 1970 number is from personal experience in Rhode Island), in 1970 it cost $600 to have a baby (without health insurance), that would be about $5,009.94 in today’s dollars. Today, according momlovesbest.com<\/a> t<\/span>he cost is $4,884 \u2013 $10,681 with health insurance and $9,013 \u2013 $19,775 without health insurance. That is well past the rate of inflation. Where is the extra money paid going? We have always had hospitals. We have always had doctors. What we haven’t always had is a huge bureaucracy controlling medicine. That’s the expense to get rid of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graham Platner is the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. On Monday, Legal Insurrection posted an article about some of his recent statements. The article reports: …his campaign manager fled the campaign to \u201cspend more time with family\u201d after … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18791,3867,11094],"class_list":["post-61846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-graham-platner","tag-legal-insurrection","tag-medicare-for-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61847,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61846\/revisions\/61847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}