Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumAll About Pete (long read from Current Affairs, digging into Buttigieg's book)
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete?fbclid=IwAR2Plk4IZ_l57XR7UPfhCNgbWZwtP14_e_okR_L62Oe5cdF1bhZgsoXOjR8I try my best to be fair, though. I thought former Michigan gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed was suspect because of his shiny résumé. But after examining his proposals and listening to his speeches, I realized he was the real deal. He had done well in school, but he was genuinely outraged by preventable human misery, talked openly about taking on corporate oligarchy, and had bold plans for revolutionizing health care, environmental policy, and just about everything else. I have lots of friends who are the products of elite institutions, but became critical of those institutions after being exposed to their inner workings. If Pete Buttigieg is one of those, great!
Pete Buttigieg is not one of those.
I stumbled upon this article on Twitter, where the news that Buttegieg was on the Stop and Shop picket line was getting pushback from those saying he hasn't really supported labor in the past, and in fact hasn't really taken a stand on much of anything, because he hasn't had to.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)Don't have time to get into it today.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)OTOH, it helped me put words to some vague impressions I've had, and will be something I continue to take into consideration as I assess all the candidates.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)I liked the article.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)The lines in the book about working on optimizing ones resume ring a bit true to me. To be fair, this is what we taught young people to do over last few decades.
But I enjoy people like Warren or Sherrod Brown who have worked tirelessly on major progressive issues for decades.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)He has these categories, and surprise, surprise, Pete fits neatly into each one.
Therefore, bingo, Pete should not be allowed to become President.
This author has not looked closely at the man himself. I doubt that he's watched any videos where Pete's been asked questions about the topics that matter to us. I doubt that he's really listened to what Pete's had to say.
Nathan J. Robinson does not know Pete at all, and his ideas about Pete are completely misguided. And WRONG.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts).... warriors is a bit disturbing and disappointing.
Perhaps just an oversight, though every time Ive passed through Harvard Square it has been my signature impression. But there was soon something even more disquieting. Talking about politics on campus, Buttigieg says:
In April 2001, a student group called the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over the offices of the universitys president, demanding a living wage for Harvard janitors and food workers. That spring, a daily diversion on the way to class was to see which national figureCornel West or Ted Kennedy one day, John Kerry or Robert Reich anotherhad turned up in the Yard to encourage the protesters.
Striding past the protesters and the politicians addressing them, on my way to a Pizza and Politics session with a journalist like Matt Bai or a governor like Howard Dean, I did not guess that the students poised to have the greatest near-term impact were not the social justice warriors at the protests [ ] but a few mostly apolitical geeks who were quietly at work in Kirkland House [Zuckerberg et al.]
I find this short passage very weird. See the way Buttigieg thinks here. He dismisses student labor activists with the right-wing pejorative social justice warriors. But more importantly, to this day it hasnt even entered his mind that he could have joined the PSLM in the fight for a living wage. Activists are an alien species, one he strides past to go to Pizza & Politics sessions with governors and New York Times journalists. He didnt consider, and still hasnt considered, the moral quandary that should come with being a student at an elite school that doesnt pay its janitors a living wage. (In fact, years later Harvard was still refusing to pay its workers decently.)
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Sanders was one of two students from CORE appointed to the commission, which included the neighborhoods alderman and state representative, in addition to members of the administration. But not long afterward, Sanders blew up at the administration, accusing Beadle of reneging on his promise and refusing to answer questions from students on its integration plan. In an open letter in the student newspaper, the Chicago Maroon, Sanders vented about the double-cross:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/bernie-sanders-core-university-chicago/
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided