Pete Buttigieg has everything except positions on major issues

[Hassin Bin Sober]

32. Pete is sharp as a tack as you say. And I really want to like him.

Heck, I’m gay and never had marriage on my radar. A gay President would be another thing I never thought I would see.

What bothers me is his apparent technocratic approach to government.

Fining poor people out of their homes and property in order to tear down houses and “right size” the town doesn’t give me a lot of confidence.

Laying off streets and sanitation people and replacing them with automatic trucks in order to “right size” the department doesn’t give me a lot of confidence.

Referring to people at Harvard protesting meager janitor wages as “social justice warriors” and a curiosity while he is on his way to hang out with elites doesn’t give me a lot of confidence.

Being a former consultant from the infamous Mckinsey doesn’t give me a lot of confidence. Google that outfit - they are up to their eyeballs in controversy.

Now I get a city government has to run closer to a business than a national government. I just hope he doesn’t think a national government that prints its own currency has to be run like a business. If he does, he wouldn’t be the first politician, even from our side, that thinks like that.

Saying “I go where the numbers lead me” sounds technocratic and smells like austerity. And austerity right now is a very bad idea.