Dave Bushaw

Where Bushaw stands

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

I believe you have to go in demanding everything that you deserve, and negotiate to half if you can't get it all. Too many politicians seem to forget their backbone at home when they go to Washington, resulting in them asking for half measures out of the gate. That results in crumbs for their constituents. I do not intend to go to Washington begging for crumbs for the Working Class. We are going to demand everything that we deserve in the country that we built.

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Finding a national identity for the 21st century. Our country is extremely fractured, and there are few things that pull the plurality of the country together. We need a national guiding principal that we can all work towards, rather than factional battles amongst different constituencies that we see today. I'm not ready to go to war with my neighbor, and it seems that the ruling elite class wants this infighting so they can maintain their power unchallenged.