Pete Buttigieg!

I honestly hadn’t been paying attention to him until it appears he won the Iowa primary. I was originally leaning towards Elizabeth Warren then in recent weeks I’ve been thinking more about Bernie Sanders. I do think our country needs some fresh ideas and the Democratic Socialists have a lot of them. I really like some of the Democratic Socialists ideas around the role of government and limiting the power of government over our lives while reining in the worse excess of business.

Mayor Pete has gotten my attention for one reason – he’s young, born a year before me in 1982. He is a man who came to age in the 21st century, he turned 18 in 2000. He was in college when September 11th happened just like myself. He’s not burdened with the legacy of growing up in 20th century, he’s a modern man. Not only that but if elected he would be the first gay married president. Now, I get that’s he’s super moderate and hardly exciting for Democrats. But he has a good relationship with business leaders and you need that if really want to get things done in the county. Maybe too practical but at least he doesn’t carry around the baggage of an earlier century.