You're completely oblivious. There are millions of Americans who would instantly recognize this kind of "adult life" -- military service, intermittent employment, turbulent personal relationships. My own grandfather received support from HIS FATHER after returning home from WWII because of various problems he was dealing with related to his war service.
If you think it would somehow have been obviously more virtuous for Platner to have held down a steady sales job after four combat deployments (which certain GOP pundits apparently do not think qualifies as legitimate adult "work history") then that's just some bizarre moralizing fixation you evidently have. It has nothing to do with whether life trajectories like Platner's are "recognizable" to "most people."
Working sporadic jobs, such as bartender, while trying to get a college degree on the GI Bill is not some radically anomalous life experience. Getting a loan from your relatively affluent father to purchase a modest house is not some radically anomalous life experience. Collecting payments from the Veterans Administration to supplement your modest employment income is something millions of Americans do every day.
Just admit that you're desperate for John Thune to retain control of the Senate in 2027 so he can do the bidding of Your Favorite President, rather than backfilling your putative arguments with all this cheap moralistic blather.
The "app for sex offenders" line you of course had to throw in is especially repellent, considering you have ZERO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that Platner engaged in any sexually illicit activity. But you don't care -- you'll spew that garbage all day if it means preserving your cherished GOP Senate majority. If you're going to run around baselessly alleging sex crimes, why don't you post under your real name instead of a fake one, so we can properly evaluate the veracity of your claim.
Yeah, no, sorry.
Most people don’t get a Nazi tattoo, get drunk at the bar they work at, and take their shirt off to show it off.
Most people don’t get married and then hop on an app and start sexting with lots of other people. (Platner’s sexting was not denied by Platner’s campaign btw.)
Most people don’t get DUIs.
Most people don’t have their parents buy them a house.
Most people don’t make a living by collecting a monthly check for imperceptible medical conditions.
Most people don’t have vanity businesses that make no money.
Most adults have way more responsibilities than Platner does at this point in his life, most people put one foot in front of the other every day, go to work, do their jobs, and often, as adults, care for other people.
If you want to argue that Platner is a damaged sort of person that is increasingly common in society, that we should have sympathy for and sensitivity to particularly in light of his military service, fine, but his adult life is not fully formed: he doesn’t have any real responsibilities except his marriage which he’s clearly struggling with, and he has no claim to run for senate except the sort of working class minstrelsy that seems to excite the DSA contingent.
I’m absolutely a pro Trump partisan and don’t pretend otherwise but the Senate is likely safe because Talarico has no shot. Also, politics is funny and Platner could paradoxically be an albatross for Dems if he wins. It’s not all so predictable. The point is that Platner was launched in an act of electoral malfeasance as a working class, salt of the earth, likable guy, and that narrative had collapsed.
Republicans, for the longest time, were just the B Team with the same idea.
People that wanted power that didn't make the cut in the 51%.
That all changes in 2016, hence the societal meltdown we continue to see from the institutions.
After Walz went for Governor, Democrats gave this guy Dan Feehan a do-nothing job for a do-nothing think tank - paying him to move to North Mankato, Minnesota and run for Walz's seat.
He moved out of Minnesota at age 12, and only ever lived in Red Wing, no longer District 1.l
Who picked Platner and why?
Who flipped the switch on Swalwell and why?
How did Kamala get the 2024 nomination?
These questions are all way more interesting than the candidates themselves and the legacy press has no curiosity or interest in providing the answers.
Literally everything Democrats do is fake. They're just the people that want to be in power. The goal is to get to 51%, then divvy up the spoils among themselves.
If AOC really grew up in the Bronx in a working class family and went to say, CUNY, instead of her father being an architect, growing up in Westchester, and going to BU, it would be a better story.
If Platner really was a salt-of-the-earth working class type guy, had a family he was raising, had a real, profitable aquaculture business, and had some organic class interests that he translated into lib politics, it would be a better story.
I could go on, but none of this stuff feels real. It comes off as staged and contrived and I think a lot of people get that. No one who is paying attention thinks these politics have an honest referent and it’s unclear why the lib left can’t articulate itself ideologically in a transparent way without the subterfuge and artifice.
It is not a coincidence that whenever some horrific event that galvanizes the anglo peoples of Britian happens, Bonnie Blue suddenly starts going viral again like clockwork.
She is 100% an MI5 asset that is marched around to demean the image of the British people as a demoralization campaign to prevent substantive action.
Sure, it may seem like I’ve abandoned all my principles with regard to toxic masculinity and believing domestic assault allegations but you have to understand that I’m maniacally obsessed with a centuries old land dispute 7,000 miles away
The NYT lied to Lyndsey and made her the fall guy for their Platner piece. Everyone who attacks her over ideology is little more than a puppet enabling an abusive man and a duplicitous press.
@Ejmiller25@nytimes The lib elite media machine is more brutal and efficient than anything drawn up in House of Cards or Game of Thrones.
They're not just biased. They're evil.