Quote · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Secretary Pete Buttigieg: The American Dream Is DEAD. We're Running Out Of Time To Fix It!
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How He Would Change the Supreme Court
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Bartlett asks for the most radical policies Buttigieg would champion, and the list is surprisingly structural. He cannot believe abolishing the Electoral College is considered radical — the person with the most votes should win, full stop. Moving to a popular vote would force Republican candidates into New York and Democrats into Texas, ending the phenomenon of contested swing states while ignoring the rest. Supreme Court reform needs three elements: term limits, more justices, and a process — possibly the 'balanced bench' proposal — to depoliticise appointments. Gerrymandering must be banned: 9 out of 10 House seats are predetermined, a statistical impossibility in a genuine 50-50 democracy. Proportional representation would let top-three vote-getters in larger districts share representation. And a constitutional amendment is needed to reverse Citizens United and restore Congress's power to regulate corporate political spending. [1] — Pete Buttigieg "The economic policies most Americans agree on — universal healthcare, fair taxes, paid family leave — are blocked by a broken political eng…" 1:14:40
Writing a pre-deployment letter before going to Afghanistan forced Pete Buttigieg to confront that he had never been in love. He promised himself that if he came home safe he would come out — and he kept that promise, first to a friend, then publicly, becoming the first openly gay major-party presidential candidate.
