With the fall of the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, many companies, celebrities, and sane people are supporting the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. She has just gotten another interesting endorsement.
Wired magazine has endorsed Hillary Clinton, or as they put it, they endorse “optimism.” Their founders Louis Rossetto, Jane Metcalfe, and Kevin Kelly were libertarians who looked forward to the future.
.@HillaryClinton is the best choice for president of the United States: https://t.co/PhRr4uzByZ pic.twitter.com/9884WcdFhP
— WIRED (@WIRED) August 18, 2016
From their article:
“We’ve seen the creative energies of countless previously invisible communities unleashed—and, well, we’ve watched networks become just as good at concentrating wealth and influence in the hands of a few people as the old hierarchies were. We’ve seen geeks become billionaires, autocrats become hackers, and our readers (people curious about how technology is shaping the world) become the American mainstream.”
Hillary Clinton is the first presidential candidate that they have endorsed. They write about politics, but they usually don’t get that involved. I think everyone needs to get involved in this circus of an election.
They believe in science. Hillary Clinton wants to work on climate change and clean sources of energy. She has also proposed entrepreneurship to forgive student loans.
Clinton is also for net neutrality and paths to immigration for people with science & technology degrees.
The choice is easy since Donald Trump is a science denier and would-be dictator. Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees, Donald Trump and Mike Pence, are both avid science-deniers. Just yesterday, the magazine, Scientific American, also came out against Donald Trump and his “alarming” science denial. They wrote:
“As if to prove his point, one of the two major party candidates for the highest office in the land has repeatedly and resoundingly demonstrated a disregard, if not outright contempt, for science. Donald Trump also has shown an authoritarian tendency to base policy arguments on questionable assertions of fact and a cult of personality.”
Mike Pence once said this pile of crap about evolution:
“This is a popular argument of the intelligent design and young-Earth creationism community: ‘Teach the controversy.’ But one good reason not to teach creationism as a ‘theory’ is that it can’t be tested. Evolution, or more to the point, natural selection, has survived scientific tests for more than a century. As a theory of life, it has only grown stronger. If adherents to creationism reject the findings of geology and physics, for instance, which help us understand the age of the Earth, then how can we have a data-based, evidence-grounded discussion of creationism over natural selection?”
Here is a clip of President Obama’s endorsement:
