Graham Platner
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Quite frankly, somebody that started a business and has just worked their asses off every day ever since and might now have like a bunch of money but still works,
They're way closer to someone working three jobs in poverty than they are to a billionaire.
We're all kind of down here.
And when we talk about policies, about clawing a lot of that wealth back, we're not talking about going after small business owners.
We're not talking about going after big business owners.
We're talking about going after the people who used their wealth and power to change policies.
in the political system to then consolidate more wealth and power.
They cheated.
And we need to use political power to claw that stuff back.
So I think that by becoming the party of representing working folks, we really would be becoming the party of really representing the vast majority of Americans.
And as people begin to realize that this right-wing populism, it's not making things cheaper.
And it's not reopening hospitals.
And it's not making your health insurance company any less awful to deal with.
That realization will kick in.
And we won't get everybody.
But I think we will start getting folks back.
But we need to be there with open arms.
And we need to be there with policies that are very understandable.
I mean, I think that's a big one.
Well, one is because it needs to be a national policy.