BUTTIGIEG IS FULL OF SH-T --

Seeing as how PB is surging in the polls based, I believe, on little more than superficial charm and a relentless push by the media to promote him as some kind of golden boy, it should be noted what it is about him that's not being made clear. He claims to be a progressive but his views don't bear that out when looked at more closely.

Let's do this as a list of bullet points of several core progressive policies.

• Medicare For All - He says he's for M4A but he's actually only for a public option to the existing system which keeps private insurance alive and thriving when we need to get rid of it entirely. He uses the term "Medicare for All" then proposes something else. It's a bait & switch.

• Tuition Free College - He uses a version of the conservative argument that tuition free college places an unfair burden on the disadvantaged by forcing them to subsidize education for everyone including the wealthy. The wealthy aren't likely to send their kids to a public college, they're much likelier to send them to private or ivy league schools. The disadvantaged are only aided by debt-free public college.

• Climate Change - He proclaims he loves The Green New Deal and calls it a step in the right direction but on his policy platform he only states his intention to have a "comprehensive climate change plan." He does not state he will support the GND specifically. He also offers no info on what this comprehensive plan of his is. He only promises a plan will be created. Basically then, he plans to have a plan eventually. Trump did a lot of of this shit too.

• Big Money Donors - I know, I know, he signed a pledge to take no money from the fossil fuel industry but, make no mistake, he's fine with corporate and wealthy donors. He takes donations from other business interests and is wide open to Wall St. money should they be willing to offer it. He's said so publicly with carefully selected words. Big money donors are a one-way ticket to corruption that no progressive would welcome.

There's more: electoral college reform with no plan, automation's impact on jobs with no plan, his checkered past employment with companies of highly questionable ethics and so on. How can someone be a progressive who doesn't support even the most basic progressive policies?

This guy's just another centrist Dem trying to pass himself off as a progressive because it's popular. That's why the DNC has signed off on him. He's a ringer. Don't fall for it.

Bernie remains the country's best option. He's smart, he's progressive, and he has detailed plans.