Geoff Young (D-KY6) won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. He is running for the US House of Representatives in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District (which includes Lexington) against the incumbent Republican, Andy Barr, (a member of the House Financial Services and Foreign Affairs Committees).
Geoff Young on the Issues
- Abolish the CIA
- Get Big Money out of politics
- Abolish AFRICOM
- Help prevent a nuclear war
- We need Medicare-for-All
- End Corruption
- Abortion: I'm totally for Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood. Andy Barr & the GOP are 100% wrong & immoral.
- Legalize cannabis
- Energy & the environment
Long story short, after talking to the guy he's essentially got all of our positions without having all our terminally online brainworms. I'd say if you're in Kentucky country or you got some cash to spare to donate - we have an honest to god fellow traveler (that is to say someone that's aligned with our politics but isn't a political radical) that could use some help spreading his message of anti-imperialism to the Kentucky people and if possible as a bonus - win.
And I mean this in the "Even if he's got no shot to win, trying to spread his anti-war message of America's fuckery in trying to siege Russia and having it backfire in the electoral theater to as many people as possible will help undermine the legitimacy of the state in the minds of the people."
He's said he's running for the House because he views it as 'the peoples house" and hopes to start pushing in the general consciousness of the American people the illegitimacy of the Judicial branch, the aristocratic Senate, and restraining the presidency and the ABC agencies.
Kentucky folks, all I gotta say is screw you for having a cool candidate.
Also he just told me he wants to lead impeachment talks on Biden for becoming an official co-belligerant with the Ukraine in a proxy war on Russia, in driving U.S navy ships illegally in PRC waters trying to provoke a military response, and for continuing the illegal sanctions on Cuba. fuckin based
locally he has the "official" reputation as a perennial crank candidate. all of the "adults in the room" around here hate him, saying he's a spoiler candidate. watching libs seeth about him during the primaries in the local comms was fucking music. i love every opportunity i get to vote for this guy, because he gives zero fucks and talks mad shit. i also enjoy liking him because it makes the libs so mad, and i can just be like "show me the lie". not to mention, i can say snooty shit like "the republicans have had a lot of successes running anti-establishment candidates. maybe there's a teachable moment here."
i voted for him in the primaries this go around, fully accepting the lib narrative that the cardboard standee they had up there would trounce him. but, i distinctly remember the hint of rising unease in their sudden campaign to denounce him. like they, as usual, paid no attention to us out here and my man geoff walked by the gatehouse.
i remember a topic popping up "don't vote for geoff!!" and thinking, oh is he at it again? and setting a reminder so i would remember to vote for him. i even brought it up with a lefty neighbor insisting that upon reading his latest platform, "abolishing the CIA" is a position i can actually relate to these days.
anyway, when i saw he won the primary i fuckin' died. hell yeah. barr is a serious piece of shit from a connected family that has paved his path to power his whole life. and he is lazy af as a politician, but his last go arounds have been shitlibs culivated by the DCCC, who spend their entire campaign on their heels trying to insist they aren't "too liberal". so barr easily walks right through them.
i'm kind of excited for some kind of debate or at least some back n forth in the media where young gives him both barrels every time some reporter comes around for a react quote.
If I were you I wouldn't be able to resist telling local libs who hate this guy to "Vote Blue, no matter who" in a voice so smug that God Himself smites me for it
Oh God that sounds so satisfying