genuine, real, intellectually-honest, problem-solver. Someone who thinks for themself and is focused on finding solutions to concrete solvable problems, willing to work with "enemies" and opponents (foreign and domestic) and would be very very hesitant to get us roped into more foreign entanglements.

But that ability to work across the aisle and come to their own views doesnt mean i want someone who is satisfied with status quo or scared of "socialism". I dont want a mole for the prison or military industrial complex. I dont want a pro-choice neocon. Etc

The country needs RADICAL changes economically, environmentally, socially, etc. But we dont need more divisiveness and partisanship. We have to find a way to get beyond the left-right divide in a progressive way if at all possible. Win ppl over to good ideas.