Gabbard impressed me. I'm just attracted to military vets as political candidates and she really radiated that maturity and knowledge that I would want in a Commander-in-Chief, especially because she's so strongly non-interventionist.
My current choice, Warren, well, she's trying too hard to not get herself on tape saying that medicare for all is going to mean a tax increase. She 1000% will not admit what she obviously knows, which is that MFA will mean taxes go up. There's no two ways around that. I don't necessarily think it's that she's lying about that point, but she's trying to be savvy by not providing a soundbite of her saying she's going to raise taxes. So she's super savvy about that but then voluntarily makes a big deal about Trump's bet with her that she's not native American when she finds out she's 1/512th Native American? I get that she didn't have the same people around her then as she has now with a Presidential campaign, but... At least Sanders fully explains that while taxes WILL go up, for average people that will be offset by what they no longer pay in premiums and deductibles.
Harris... Yeah, so Trump has violated Twitter TOS? That's the hill she wants to die on?
I'm glad Yang was in the debate. I think he brings an important perspective and an important topic into it. I work with automation. Luckily, I fix automated systems, so my job prospects are going to be good for the rest of my working life. But I clearly see that the workers who operate automated systems will just be tasked with operating multiple systems as the systems improve. The number of people that will be needed in these automated factories is going to decline, and in about 5 years it's going to really start to hit hard. 10 years from now and it'll be a whole different reality. We're just in the learning stage of how to actually automate, so the gains we see now are just a fraction of what we'll see when the lessons we're learning are applied to automation generation 2 and generation 3. I think Yang is claiming we're in the 4th industrial revolution, and maybe he's right on that, but industrial revolution #4 is automation/industrial AI generation #1. Big changes are coming and laborers are going away. This is a very important conversation.
I like Pete, but I don't think this is Pete's time. Not just that he's young and is "only" a mayor. I just think he's not ready to be our President and he's absolutely (despite being a vet) not ready to be our Commander-in-Chief. I like him, though and I think he'll move on from being a mayor to do bigger things.
Klobachar was impressive and I hope she makes the next debate. I'd like to see and hear more from her.
Man, Biden... He did well. He hit his positives as hard as he could hit them. I know he's always been gaff-prone, but now it's not gaffs, it's losing his train of thought, not being able to find the word he's looking for, stumbling over details. His age is showing more than any of the other candidates.
Beto should drop out ASAP because I think he's hurting the eventual candidate a lot and he's hurting his future chances a lot. He's saying a bunch of stupid **** that he couldn't even ever do because of the U.S. Constitution. He isn't even addressing that fact at all.
A great contribution to the thread. Would rep if I could.