PosterChild
PosterChild's JournalWould America elect a socialist to be President ?
Um, no. Why do you ask?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183713/socialist-presidential-candidates-least-appealing.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/17/could-a-socialist-actually-be-elected-president/
We are the scientist and engineers of...
... Solar Probe Plus... ask us ANYTHING ,!!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3hvybf/were_members_of_solar_probe_plus_spp_nasas/
#ilooklikeanengineer - Who Doesn't ?
I work with (and for) some very accomplished , very talented female engineers. Designing and building spacecraft for some of the most challenging missions ever undertaken by human kind. I can imagine them having to put up with remarks like these.
#ilooklikeanengineer wants to challenge your ideas about who can work in tech
http://wapo.st/1JK8QtR
Alongside other social virtues, I value power....
Power is a positive, necessary, social force and no one actively engaged in politics, including you and Bernie, can do anything virtuous and beneficial without it. Running for office is running for power.
Since we humans are social animals, we need to systematically coordinate our efforts and cooperate in order to achieve just basic survival, let alone greater and more encompassing shared goals. Power is the mechanism that enables selection of such goals and effective social cooperation towards achieving them. If those goals are good, then power, the means to those goals, is good.
My conception of power is the ability to administer a system of rewards and punishments in order to influence behavior. I conceive of governance as the use of this ability in the service of justice.
My impression is that what those who...
... say they value "honesty and integrity" really value is a clear, unambiguous, public articulation of their own personal views. Which are often at the fringes of the general electorate; an electorate that is quite often ambivalent about the issues that concern the activists who demand "honesty and integrity". Another, less charitable, view of "honesty and integrity" is that it often devolves into "pandering to the base".
I personally appreciate candidates who take a broader, more inclusive and nuanced approach to the issues.
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