Graham Platner
speaker
2,222 appearances
59 recordings
20 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Graham Platner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · Politics for ME (and You) with Graham Platner · 29 Apr 2026
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I mean, it's a joke, but it's not that much of a joke.
But the problem is people that are elevated within that system, they're not going to want to think big.
And so my whole life, I've just heard from establishment politicians that the best thing we can ever do is keep electing the same people because they know how the system works.
And that experience is somehow like the experience that's going to get us something instead of nothing.
The problem is their experience is within the system that can't seem to do anything.
And like, and I actually think that that's a bad experience.
Like, I don't think that that actually equates to a political vision or even a theory of power for that matter, because it's not about, it's not about getting things done in the service of something.
It's just like,
being able to play the inside baseball for the sake of playing the inside baseball, not in the service of a greater goal.
And I think honestly, that's one of the biggest problems that we have.
And in like, so in like, meanwhile, like this is why I think we need a lot more normal people in politics.
Because the experience of normal people, like my experience is having to fight in deeply stupid wars and seeing the reality of that.
Yes.
It's also coming home from those stupid wars and then not being supported for many years and going through the problems.
Then it's like trying to start a small business and going through the problems of dealing with all of...
Having the experience of trying to figure out how to make life work.
And all within a system that often is kind of arrayed against you.
And like, we need more people with that kind of experience.
Because when you have that kind of experience, you're living in the material realities of policy.
Not the words.
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