Jon Reisman
Graham Platner is a nazi-tattooed antisemitic socialist. Maine’s progressive left has embraced his antisemitic socialism and seeks to impose it on the rural racist recidivists his Reddit rants ridiculed and railed against.
They may well succeed, but if they think this Jew will quietly submit to the progressive Totenkopf Death’s Head tattooed concentration camp guard/secret police admirers, they better buy a gag and hire more Maine People’s Alliance thugs.
Platner’s campaign and popularity mean Pogroms are on the immediate horizon -- that’s what Iran has been pushing for 47 years. What do you think “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” mean?
The Oct. 7, 2023, Gazan/Iranian pogrom featured all the murder and rape a good progressive
antisemite could wish for. The claim that antizionist and anti-Israeli sentiments are not antisemitism is complete progressive BS -- at least Hitler and the national socialists (that’s where “NAZI” comes from) were relatively honest about their plans to kill Jews. Having smug progressives tell me that I’m overreacting and misunderstanding them is pretty rich.
I understand them perfectly -- they hate Jews, capitalism and freedom, and love oppressed Islamic terrorists. Most of them have deluded themselves into believing that socialism will work and be better. Historical evidence to the contrary (Russia, China, Cuba, Cambodia, Venezuela) is ignored. The same folks who gave New York City Mandami are pushing Platner for Portland and Maine. Freedom and prosperity are not likely consequences -- and I believe that is exactly what the left wants, along with a Juden free Maine and Middle East.
Some 120 years ago, my paternal grandfather fled Russian/Ukrainian pogroms and emigrated to the United States. His name was changed to Reisman at Ellis Island. Grandpa Harry was a peasant/serf. His sons became a lawyer (my father) and a doctor (my uncle). His grandson became an economist and college professor.
Most assimilated secular Jewish-Americans have been on the left, and I certainly was. I left the Democratic Party over their insistence on supporting racial and gender discrimination against white males, also known as affirmative action. Supporting such discrimination is the policy path that has led to the antisemitic policy present. Progressive claims to the contrary are pure hypocrisy.
Telling Jews that they are imagining/misunderstanding progressive advocacy as antisemitism seems like telling an African American that they misunderstand white-robed KKK rallies.
Graham Platner is a clear and present danger to Maine’s and my freedom and prosperity. I am considering filing a red flag request to relieve the wannabe Jew killer of his firearms.
Jon Reisman is an economist and policy analyst who retired from the University of Maine at Machias after 38 years. He resides on Cathance Lake in Cooper, where he is a Statler and Waldorf intern. Mr. Reisman’s views are his own, and he welcomes comments as letters to the editor here or to him directly via email at jreisman@maine.edu.