• Legonatic
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    1 day ago

    The mental gymnastics of purity tests for every candidate are going to be the downfall of American democracy.

    I understand distrust in politicians, but come on, this isn’t a case of the lesser of two evils. It’s a regular guy who is putting forth progressive policy ideas and a proven supporter of everything wrong with modern politics. Not to mention, Collins does almost nothing for her constituents anymore and is so out of touch it’s absurd.

    Mainers fortunately don’t care about the purity test nonsense.

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      1 day ago

      Nothing will ever be good enough for the contrarian asshats who just want everything to burn down.

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      Putting forward a candidate who went to Iraq to do mass murder for fun and telling people to vote for him is the downfall of American democracy.

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        No no no you don’t understand, who hasn’t committed a little war crime and enjoyed it every now and then? And him calling the war criminals of fallujah “war heroes”, well that’s just freedom of speech; doesn’t get much more american than that! And sure, he wants to expand the navy, but that’s just so we can defend ourselves better in the middle east! And the nazi tattoo? Well come on now, boys will be boys ;)

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        22 hours ago

        People are capable of change and recognizing their mistakes. I recommend you try it.