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Graham Platner: “The systems that we have in place are in many ways kind of…”

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

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Graham Platner Talks Guns, PTSD and Democratic Leadership

Published | Video Starts at 06:46

But you know, it'd be better not sending to people in the fucked up places in the first place or having schools get shot up, any of these other things that cause so much of the BTSD in this country. There is a, The systems that we have in place are in many ways kind of like at their core they are traumatizing to us as, as a society and as individuals. And you know, there's the old adage, hurt people, hurt people. And like, I feel like as a society that is in many ways what we have wound up becoming. (06:46–06:56)

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Asserts that existing systems are inherently traumatizing to society and individuals.

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