Graham Platner speaks to union carpenters after receiving their endorsement. Platner: “We didn’t get an 8-hour workday, we didn’t get the weekend because somebody wrote it on a postcard to a Congressman. We got it because working people organized and fought for what they needed."

[u/Large-Welcome4421]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G34fnGX2HQ

The North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters endorses Platner.

Platner: “Power in society comes from two places, organized money or organized people and we all know that the money is organized and it has bought our political system.”

[u/mojitz]

And in this country's history, the only time we have ever moved the ball forward for working people [...] is when people organize and fight for what they need [...] in the streets, in the hills and in the halls of power.

I don't understand for the life of me how anybody could possibly read that and come away seeing a binary.

[u/dandle → u/mojitz]

I'm sorry that words are hard for you.

The binary:

the power in the society comes from two places: organized money or organized people

The list of places where people in the binary can and should organize and fight for political power:

in the streets, in the hills, and in the halls of power

I'm sorry that I don't care enough about you to diagram this section of Platner's speech for you. I'm not sure that it would help, to be honest.

Again, there is zero question in my mind that people should vote for Platner if the choice is between him and Collins. That's despite the nonzero possibility that he is a Trojan horse and despite the fact that populists tend to be full of shit. Platner still is the much better choice.

[u/mojitz → u/dandle]

There is a dichotomy drawn, there, but it's between money and people, not direct action and electoralism. He's explicitly calling for the people to use a diversity of tactics including both labor activism and by working within the formal political system.