Pete

Anyway, I met him, fall in love, start dating. And this, uh, I run into this woman. I know, I think in the lobby of the County city building, I'm walking into work. I know she's a little more conservative. Um, and she comes up and she says, uh, I ran into your friend and he's wonderful. And it was one of those moments, right? Where like, I think

it was very important that the thing to recognize is like for her, she was signaling something pretty big for her. Yeah. Like, I don't know exactly, but I can guess like how she thought about and talked about gay people probably all her life, but she knew me. She met him. He's wonderful. Like, yeah. Right.

it was very important that the thing to recognize is like for her, she was signaling something pretty big for her. Yeah. Like, I don't know exactly, but I can guess like how she thought about and talked about gay people probably all her life, but she knew me. She met him. He's wonderful. Like, yeah. Right.

it was very important that the thing to recognize is like for her, she was signaling something pretty big for her. Yeah. Like, I don't know exactly, but I can guess like how she thought about and talked about gay people probably all her life, but she knew me. She met him. He's wonderful. Like, yeah. Right.

Versus if I treated her to a lecture on the difference between a friend and a partner, right? Yeah. That would have pushed her right back into the arms of these people who don't want anything but for me.

Versus if I treated her to a lecture on the difference between a friend and a partner, right? Yeah. That would have pushed her right back into the arms of these people who don't want anything but for me.

Versus if I treated her to a lecture on the difference between a friend and a partner, right? Yeah. That would have pushed her right back into the arms of these people who don't want anything but for me.

So what I take from that is this broader process that needs to go on where we find people, and as passionate as we are, and as right as I believe we are about the big things, even though I'm open to the fact that we may not be right about everything, we're not telling people that they are... bigoted or racist or whatever, because they don't already start out in the same place that we are.

So what I take from that is this broader process that needs to go on where we find people, and as passionate as we are, and as right as I believe we are about the big things, even though I'm open to the fact that we may not be right about everything, we're not telling people that they are... bigoted or racist or whatever, because they don't already start out in the same place that we are.

So what I take from that is this broader process that needs to go on where we find people, and as passionate as we are, and as right as I believe we are about the big things, even though I'm open to the fact that we may not be right about everything, we're not telling people that they are... bigoted or racist or whatever, because they don't already start out in the same place that we are.

There has to be that process of kind of inviting people to look at things the way we look at things versus commanding them to. And I think that is something that in the culture of my party has been especially challenging in the last like 10 or 20 years. But that we need to work through because, again, politics is about persuasion. It's about finding people where they are.

There has to be that process of kind of inviting people to look at things the way we look at things versus commanding them to. And I think that is something that in the culture of my party has been especially challenging in the last like 10 or 20 years. But that we need to work through because, again, politics is about persuasion. It's about finding people where they are.

There has to be that process of kind of inviting people to look at things the way we look at things versus commanding them to. And I think that is something that in the culture of my party has been especially challenging in the last like 10 or 20 years. But that we need to work through because, again, politics is about persuasion. It's about finding people where they are.

It's about how they feel about themselves. I think there is a desire for belonging that is not just something liberals care about. I actually think the loss of belonging that happens in a town like where I grew up when you lose your auto job.

It's about how they feel about themselves. I think there is a desire for belonging that is not just something liberals care about. I actually think the loss of belonging that happens in a town like where I grew up when you lose your auto job.

It's about how they feel about themselves. I think there is a desire for belonging that is not just something liberals care about. I actually think the loss of belonging that happens in a town like where I grew up when you lose your auto job.

And the Workforce Development Agency comes along and says, good news, I found a job that you can get qualified for based on your education and it pays just as much and you're going to be a nursing assistant.

And the Workforce Development Agency comes along and says, good news, I found a job that you can get qualified for based on your education and it pays just as much and you're going to be a nursing assistant.

And the Workforce Development Agency comes along and says, good news, I found a job that you can get qualified for based on your education and it pays just as much and you're going to be a nursing assistant.

Maybe that's a perfectly good job, obviously, but if the last 20 years of your life have been about not just the way you make your money, but the way you see where you fit in the world is about what you know how to do in a machine shop. Yeah. And some well-intentioned person with a clipboard is telling you, guess what, now you get to be a nursing assistant.