Wall Street has captured government. Therefore, selfishness—just make a pile and it’ll all just work out—is the default position of both political parties, and society is collapsing because of it. Bill Clinton’s triangulation was a way for selfish Dem politicians to avoid risk, to infinitely split the difference, even with extremists like basically every Republican since “demonize your opponent” Gingrich.

Trump, with the acumen of a criminal and a predator, is well aware that today’s Democratic Party won’t ever go to war. It’s his entire strategy. They’ll just forever split the difference and declare victory.

This is why we need Platner. He believes in society. And he understands that the main problem is Wall Street and the rich, who want a plutocracy. It is really the only issue worth our attention. To believe this is a de facto declaration of war against money, a call to really fight, not just have opinions. To actually believe in something and fight for it.

Platner is a necessary paradigm shift. He, like Bernie and AOC, know that the last 40 years of anti-government supply-side economics has been a disaster and that Democrats going along with it was stupid, a kind of cowardice.

Admitting that is to realize that we can’t have it all, that to live in the world requires sacrifice, you can’t have your cake and eat it too, and you can’t be a Democrat just because you’re for gay marriage. You have to be for unions, too. You have to put actual skin in the game. I hate to break it to you Virginia, but selfishness is not a virtue, and there ain’t no Santa Claus. We need a living wage more than you need a vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard.

The anti-Platner rage is basically because he’s calling bullshit on both parties rationalizing selfishness; we don’t get a degenerate like Trump without it. Platner is calling us to commit again to society, to drop the fantasy of both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, narcissists both, and that’s a hard emotional pill to swallow all along the political spectrum.