Pete Speaks at Montana Town Hall

On Sunday, Pete Buttigieg spoke at a town hall in Butte, Montana, once the copper capital of the world, where a citizens' initiative, the Montana Plan, is a lively topic just now.  He's been going around the country in recent months making speeches and taking questions at events like this.  I haven't watched any of them because I know I would agree with just about everything he says; and also because I'm sick to death of political speechmaking, which seems so futile in the face of the calamity that has engulfed our country.  

But I said to myself, you ought to listen to him and post his video for others who just might want to hear what he has to say.  So here you go, fellas.  I will just add that I admire Pete tremendously, and he will certainly get my vote for president, if I live long enough to see another free and fair election.  

Your Head Trucker's political memory stretches back to the election of JFK in 1960.  Without being a student of politics, I have seen many politicians come and go on the national stage; some have earned enduring renown, and others, lasting ignominy.  In my estimation, Pete is a damn good man, a fine man, honest, honorable, intelligent, compassionate, and courageous.  A man at once humble but also inspiring:  he aims high and seems to shine with an inner light.  

I wept listening to his simple speech, which seemed to me the prologue to a noble story:  David versus Goliath, perhaps.  This is a man marked our for high destiny, I do believe.  One day he may earn a place in the pantheon of our greatest leaders, with the grateful praise of generations to come.

But what do I know.  Listen and judge for yourself.

P. S. -- I will note here that I don't quite agree with Pete's thesis that "the system is broken."  When a man's body is overwhelmed by a filthy contagion, it's not his system that is broken.  Our body politic has been overwhelmed by disease and corruption that may prove fatal unless a remedy is found, and soon.  That's how I would put it.

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