Put on the defensive by Bernie Sanders, who is a self-described socialist (albeit not in the true definition of the word), Democratic candidates for president have been asked to take a side. Are you a socialist or a capitalist? So far, they all profess to be capitalists. Their rhetoric, however, would suggest they don’t always understand what this means. Just recently, Joe Biden criticized companies for not paying their employees a living wage while buying back stock. In her autobiography, Kamala Harris attributes the decline in middle-class wages to corporate greed. Elizabeth Warren’s invective against Wall Street is legendary. How can they be both against it and for it? Perhaps we can help them to reconcile their inconsistency. Let’s try to be fact-based and rational.

During a recent CNN Town Hall, Anderson Cooper asked Pete Buttigieg why he had no policies on his website. It was a fair question. Sadly, it is a fair question for most of the current candidates for president as well. Is it too much to ask those who want be be our leader to be clear about where they stand on the issues and have the courage to lead? We don’t think so. Let’s try to be fact-based and rational and see what we find.