r/moderatepolitics • u/TheWyldMan • 3d ago

News Article Graham Platner’s Wife Flagged Sexually Explicit Texts to His Senate Campaign

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/graham-platners-wife-flagged-sexually-explicit-texts-to-his-senate-campaign-628ec832?mod=e2tw
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u/Powerful-Persimmon87 2d ago edited 2d ago

People are always like omg his imperfections make him so real and authentic. But idk, this guy authentically fails all my moral metrics for just regular people —let alone political leaders. As a happily married woman to a wonderful man, I have little respect for men who disrespect their wives like this (and vice versa). And while I think all people are deserving of second chances, everything I know about this man tells me that this is who he really is. They’ve only been married since 2023, too! It’s such a low bar to clear… though higher than not having and walking around with a Nazi tattoo for 20 years. 

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u/Dabbing_Squid 2d ago

The guy is a walking red flag.

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u/Consistent-Muscle-87 1d ago

Red commy flag 

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u/Ordinary_Team_4214 Humanist 2d ago

To many of us, he represents what we want politics to be. We want ordinary people who understand and have surpassed, ordinary struggles, not people backed with billionaire funded super pacs who try to bully ordinary people out of politics.

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u/curdledtwinkie 2d ago

He's not 'ordinary.' His family is incredibly affluent. His grandfather is a world-renowned architect. He went to Hothkiss. His father gave him a $200k loan (of which he pays $950/month), and not only did his family also help set up him.up with his oyster farm, his mother is his primary customer.

I actually have no problem with parents setting up their kids for success when they've the means. My issue is that he has never built anything, that he's cos playing as this blue collar everyman, when the reality is that he's a liar, through and through. Just like Trump.

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u/Powerful-Persimmon87 2d ago

It’s possible to have higher moral standards for “ordinary people”. I certainly do. I swear the bar is on the floor for this guy. It’s possible for an “ordinary person” to be a bad person unfit for office. It’s possible to be a bad person without the support of a billionaire or super PACs. It’s possible to be a good person with the support of a billionaire. That so many people point to Trump to justify Platner is telling. There’s a reason I didn’t vote for Trump. 

And I’m not convinced Platner’s overcome anything. He has a very long and recent history of exhibiting poor moral character and decision making. He has well connected DC friends and a rich family who seem to bail him out of any financial hardship and/or shield him from ever having to be held personally accountable in life. He was born into a life of privilege and took everything that was handed to him for granted and now he’s mad that adulting is hard and feels entitled to more in life and so he needs someone else to blame for his own shortcomings.

Billionaires are just the populist left villain —much like immigrants are the populist right villain. It’s all so reductive and oversimplified. Neither billionaires or immigrants are the source of all life problems (but that’s what they want people to think so they can manipulate them). 

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u/Good_Morning-Captain 2d ago

Platner worked as a mercenary for Blackwater. Real ordinary guy.

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u/SpitfireIsDaBestFire 2d ago

That is an ordinary thing to do for infantrymen of the GWOT era