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You position yourself as an “independent voice” for working families, but your record shows weak solutions and safe rhetoric. You’ve had the chance to push for real change but continue to offer surface-level reforms that don’t challenge the systems harming your constituents. Kent might be worse, but that doesn’t mean you deserve my vote. Step up, because your platform is just more of the same. Israel-Hamas Conflict – Misleading and One-Sided You frame the Israel-Hamas situation as a “war,” but this is ethnic cleansing and colonial violence, with Israel as the occupying force. By calling it a war, you’re ignoring the genocide Palestinians face. Israel, backed by U.S. dollars, displaces and kills Palestinians while expanding illegal settlements. This isn’t a conflict—it’s a systematic destruction of Palestinian lives. Your refusal to call out Israel’s actions is either ignorance or political convenience. Disaster Relief – Ignoring Root Causes Your praise for FEMA ignores the bigger issue: disasters like Hurricane Milton are worsened by a system prioritizing corporate profits over the environment. More FEMA funding doesn’t address the disaster capitalism that lets corporations profit from reconstruction while vulnerable communities suffer. You’re offering a band-aid while ignoring the real wound—corporate greed. Healthcare – Token Fixes You offer small tweaks to a profit-driven healthcare system that exploits people. Lowering drug prices and expanding telehealth won’t fix the larger problem. If you cared about working families, you’d fight for universal healthcare. Incremental reforms won’t stop millions from being crushed by medical bills. The Farm Bill – Serving Corporate Interests You claim to support small farmers, but your policies benefit agribusiness giants. Climate resiliency sounds good, but you ignore the corporate monopolies squeezing small farms. If you really cared about rural communities, you’d challenge these corporations, not just give them more room to exploit. Foreign Policy – Hypocrisy on Spending You talk about fiscal responsibility, yet back military interventions and aid that props up oppressive regimes. You can’t claim to care about responsible spending while supporting imperialist policies that waste taxpayer dollars and enrich the powerful. This is hypocrisy, not prudence. Bottom Line: Weak Platform Your platform is weak because you refuse to confront the real forces of harm. Small tweaks won’t cut it. If you want votes, stop playing it safe and fight corporate power and imperialism. Until you do, you’re not offering anything different from what’s already failing us.