The sneering tone of the Sept. 27 op-ed “Graham Platner sings for his supper in the rain in Portland” was disgraceful. Platner gave a longer, more thoughtful answer to the question of reaching Trump voters than the quote implied. I came to the event skeptical about Platner but left impressed, not the least by how many people stood in the pouring rain to listen to him speak. The core of his argument is that we are a very rich country, but the working and middle class are getting crumbs. That colossal waste is why Platner called them “stupid foreign wars.”America’s economic strength was always based on the success of our middle and working classes.