Lots of passion, Alexander Blum.

Much credit to Bernie Sanders for being the real McCoy — he believes this stuff. Credit to him for finger-pointing the inflated prices of drugs, education and housing — most valuable. Unfortunately, his proposed solutions often fail to address the underlying issues, come at enormous cost, risk of introducing further problems while compounding the existing ones. There is a top down management pattern to Bernie that is impossible to work efficiently — meaning, we would all finish up being poorer (not just the people at the top).

Better maintaining the free market which has made you and I well-off, if not filthy rich, (same time beef-up and use our anti-trust laws) rather than replacing — as Bernie would try.

Sometimes good solutions are preferable to grand solutions.

I would not dismiss Buttigieg so readily.