All About Pete

[VoicesAcrossAmerica]

I see a lot of folks getting excited by Mayor Pete. I myself had some thoughts about a one two ticket with him and Warren. But I recognize my limited knowledge of his actual political record and thoughts regarding power, which is something that matters a lot to me. This article is long, but it is a bit of a dive into Pete’s book, and the thing that jumps out at me is how he sees or doesn’t see regular people. What attracts me to Warren is her empathy, and her rage for justice (a book I read when I started in politics)

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 university’s 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 figure—Cornel West or Ted Kennedy one day, John Kerry or Robert Reich another—had 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.]


[link:https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete|