I don't know if Bloomberg is an arrogant prick or not. But I don't blame him for his late entrance into the presidential race or participating in the earlier debates. First, Bloomberg entered the race only because he saw the other candidates as having little chance of defeating Trump. I agree with that. Skipping the presidential debates is over-inflated. The debates should be a vetting process. They aren't. They are so fvcking stupid that I am having a hard time understanding that so many give them any credence. They say there is no such thing as a stupid question. I disagree. Look at the questions asked, and how they are asked, at the debates. It's like they have knuckledraggers in charge of managing the debates. They aren't even debates. You could go watch most high school debate teams compete and see and hear better debates, better questions, and far, far better answers and rebuttals.

I think Bloomberg is on the right track. Take the campaign to the voters, even though too many of them are deplorable knuckledraggers themselves. But they get polled, and they vote.

Democratic candidates are truly a disappointment. (BTW, I lean left.) Each of them is up there spouting, "Vote for me - cuz I'm gonna' give you more free sh!t than the other guys!" We have a booming national economy, but not a one of them - except Bloomberg - acts like they understand basic Econ 101. They promise better or free health care. They promise free education. Fvck all, neither health care nor education are basic human rights, contrary to Bernie. Basic education is a national priority and committment, and the gov't spends a ton a money on it, but it's not a human right. I think the gov't should spend enough to make college or trade schools affordable to those who want it, but not free. A student needs skin in the game - money invested - to appreciate it enough to take it seriously. I think the gov't should spend maybe a bit more on health care, but it shouldn't be free. Again, patient customers should have some skin in the game so they use it wisely and don't abuse it. The gov't should intervene to put US health care on a par with the other major western natiions, so that we don't spend twice as much as other nations to receive about 80% of the care that they do. Allow Medicare to negotiate pharma prices for Pete's sake. Neuro surgeon's make $1.4 million a year; do you really think they would switch jobs if they only made $800,000 a year? On and on, etc.

US defense is in pretty good shape, and that is national priority number one. Beyond education and health, the national funding priority should be infrastructure - often mentioned yet seldom invested in. And since the economy is booming, maybe the Fed should do like WA state and actually have a rainy day fund instead of always going deeper in the red.

The US tax code has always favored capital over labor. Trump tilted the scale even more out of whack. It should be rebalanced so more money flows into tax revenue. WTF should capital gains be taxed at a lower rate than wage income? Net income is net income, but cap. gains accrues mainly to the wealthy; I've never made a single dollar of cap. gains.

Bloomberg is an old white billionaire, but I'd trust him to manage my money over any of the other candidates, and certainly over Trump any day.