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Graham Platner: “The culture war stuff was all invented to keep us from…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Published | Video Starts at 47:37

And I think they're willing to sort of not care, actually about a lot of The culture war stuff was all invented to keep us from having the conversation about taxing billionaire wealth and breaking up corporate monopolies. monopolies. I think that's why we have to argue about all these culture war issues that in reality, I mean, it keeps us all divided, but it doesn't reopen the … (47:37–47:40)

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Asserts that culture wars distract from discussions on taxing wealth and breaking monopolies.

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