To love a country, as to love a person, is to love a flawed and exquisite creation, to see what is best in it, to be angry when it is not what it cou… - Pete Buttigieg

"Nothing is more human than to resist loss, which is why cynical politicians can get pretty far by offering up the fantasy that a loss can be reversed rather than overcome the hard way. This is the deepest lie of our recent national politics, the core falsehood encoded in "Make America Great Again." Beneath the impossible promises — that coal alone will fuel our future, that a big wall can be built around our status quo, that climate change isn't even real — is the deeper fantasy that time itself can be reversed, all losses restored, and thus no new ways of life required."

It is easier to be cruel, or unfair, to people in groups and in the abstract; harder to do so toward a specific person in your midst,

I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry.