@SeaGreenEyez Yah I see that as the opposite of everything he puts forward. He is the only candidate I have seen that actively tries to diffuse hate and doesn't actively feed the divide. He is white and Male. I don't vote based on race or gender. If I was voting based on that though, getting an openly gay person is way more of a big deal than woman or person of color.

Unless you are arguing all veterans are war mongers then that argument is invalid. The strongman military worship or your a traitor stance is what reins where I live. I believe someone exactly like Pete is what we need to diffuse it.

As for the hard core unchangeable GodnGuns bigots. A handsome gay man and his witty husband are the perfect payback for Trump.

@SeaGreenEyez The gay part is just a bonus for me. I have heard about the police scandal. To me it sounds like he did the best he could in a situation with no good answers that was inherited from previous leadership.

Sanders and Biden are doing the opposite of diffusing hate. I find them both extremely distateful. I like all the others. Changing the God Guns conversation is the reason I like Pete. I have waited my entire life for someone in power to throw their hypocrytical BS back at them. Policy wise I don't care much who gets there as long as it is a democrat who won't veto climate legislation. The issues they deal with will be determined for them. He is the perfect image of the antiTrump.

@SeaGreenEyez As a veteran myself, married to a veteran (and both of us are now pacifists)...I admire his military record and know that being in the military can teach someone a lot of things about the horrors of war and the goodness of peace.

I like everything I have heard from Pete so far...and what I've investigated about him. Just because you may disagree with choosing Pete as a candidate doesn't mean any of us who support him have bought into anything or been spoon-fed by the media. We are capable of looking deeper...and we do! Pete is a good, level-headed, intelligent human...some have called him the "anti-trump"...and I agree with that.

SeaGreen, I would love hear from you what your issues are with him...what all he did in Indiana that makes you discount him as a candidate...thanks. ^_^

It's like he is methodically choosing to use their own weapon against them. He also clearly says that he doesn't disapprove of other religions or lacking religion.