06-27-2019, 02:47 PM
(06-27-2019, 02:17 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I MIGHT watch tonight, but I am more interested in town halls until it narrows.
Any millennial who was once at the far end of the anti-gay spectrum will always be a no for me
Forgive me for saying this, but that's a rather narrow minded perspective and, IMO, completely ignores the ability of a human being to grow and change as they experience life.
Quote:but is Buttigieg not in the conversation? He's fairly moderate but in a different way than Gabbard.
Buttigieg is an intelligent man with apparently zero policy ideas or positions. I also don't appreciate his reaction to the police shooting in his city recently. However, that's a minor, and obviously recent, concern for me. Quite honestly the Democratic party is moving increasingly left and I strongly disagree with many of their policy positions such as healthcare for all with no private insurance, near unfettered immigration (legal or illegal), repaying student loans en masse for those who made poor decisions (for clarification I repaid all my student loans. I also got myself into over $60k worth of credit card debt by the time I was 23. It took a long time and a severe curtailing of my spending but I paid it off totally by my early thirties). Lastly, their position on the criminal justice system is complete anathema to me. The consequences of these policies is having severe effects in CA, WA and OR. Not that they'll admit this in public though, ever.
