Yang surpasses Beto in Iowa poll, qualifies for fall debates

[2020Junker]

4. I really, really like Yang

I'm not sure he's viable (he's my number four at the moment), but I simply like hearing the man speak. He's a brilliant person who has a grasp on how our economic future is going to be, whether we acknowledge it or not.

What hit me like a bolt of lightning in the debates was when he said on climate change, "We're already too late. Prepare accordingly."

That is a hard truth, but one that needed to be spoken aloud. Anyone following climate news can see how the change is accelerating. Everyday, some new alarm bell is screaming at us. We've already done unmistakable damage. The problem is, humans work on more immediate scales. Miami and New Orleans are going under no matter what we do now. We literally baked that one in. But we won't see it for another decade or two. So we collectively just don't regard it as a threat to be addressed.

The man speaks knowledgeable sense. I want him around for more debates, more national discussion, more awareness. I would love to see him in a Cabinet position - perhaps Department of Labor or Commerce given his deep knowledge of how automation is going to rapidly transform our economy in the next two or three decades and profoundly affect the average American worker.

We need people like him to move us forward and prepare for the challenges we already know are coming. The guy has a lot of foresight. We need more of that.