I was a member of the Maine Green Party. I became a Dem so I could caucus for Bernie.

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79. No

They are talking about Sanders at that point, not Trump. That said, the guy Platner is talking with is a complete idiot. He is complaining about a nonprofit buying land on Beal's Island. That would be the Downeast Institute.

Maine’s fishing families and communities rely on the ability to sustain and enhance marine resources. In the mid-1980s, fishermen and community members from six towns in rural Washington county became concerned about a decrease in soft-shell clam harvests. They joined forces with research scientist Brian Beal to work together to learn how to spawn clams, raise larvae, and grow them into seed clams that can be planted in mudflats. This effort initiated Maine’s first public shellfish hatchery and founded the organization that was to become the Downeast Institute (DEI).

For over 30 years DEI has continued to conduct applied research on commercially important shellfish species along the entire coast of Maine.

DEI exists to support fishermen and the health and resilience of Maine’s coastal economy by generating new knowledge about the marine environment. We work directly with community and industry partners to discover and develop methods and techniques to adapt fisheries to the changing marine environment and create new opportunities for fishermen and entrepreneurs in Downeast Maine and beyond.

https://downeastinstitute.org/about-us/

We need push back against that level of idiocy, not sympathize with it.

I am not going to say any more.