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'The Oligarchy Is the Enemy': Maine Oyster Farmer Launches Senate Bid to Oust Susan Collins | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)

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Julia Conley
Aug 19, 2025

Launching a US Senate run to unseat five-term Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, oyster farmer Graham Platner on Tuesday made clear in his inaugural ad that beating the "fake" moderate also means taking on the power-hungry billionaire class that has helped keep her in power all these years.

The enemy that the vast majority of Americans and Mainers have in common, said Platner, "is the oligarchy."

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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's the billionaires, the ultra wealthy who think they can play god that are the problem.

Petit bourgeois small business types are usually he first to embrace fascist policies when their material class interests are threatened. We are not "progressives" we are communists and this guy is a literal veteran of the fascist military and proud of it. You are the reason we say "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds".