I don't know if having this spectrum of people is a strategic move on Trumps part for some deeper purpose or if it's just because they believe the things he believes and he's trying to make for an easy political life.
I guess in the long run, we shall see.
Musk or Trump? :)
Musk might be liberal on some kind of social issues, but he's more of a libertarian than anything, he's not remotely some kind of 'bernie' guy.
Musk told his wife, as they were having their 'first dance at the wedding' - that 'he's the alpha' in the relationship. Does that sound progressive? Or how about dumping his wife who bore 5 children for a girl 1/2 his age? Prog cred?
Also " very staunch flat earth, climate denial, intelligent design type conservatives "
... this is casual bigotry on your part. 'Flat Earth'? Seriously? You're just going to throw that in?
And you do realize it was Father David LeMaitre - a Catholic Priest and Physicist, who conceived of the 'big bang'?
Anyhow - I'm not going to defend any of that necessarily, but your remarks amount to a casual kind of bigotry which is the bane of political discussion these days. Try to avoid this crude kind of stuff.
And FYI Trump was a 'NYC tough-guy Democrat' for most of his life. The Clinton's went to his and Melania's wedding for gosh sakes.
Anyhow - neither Trump nor Musk could truly be considered classically liberal or conservative in either sense of the term.
Funny: both of them are good businessmen, but neither of them have the faintest grasp of economics.
Also, as long as people don't reject Flat-earth, climate-denial, or intelligent design, they are condoning those things. The Republican party have been masters of allowing these beliefs to come along for the ride for years. 2 of them seem to be rooted in religious freedom, and can be safely left out of political discourse. the 3rd, climate change denial, needs to be discussed, and needs to be handled on the basis of facts instead of beliefs.
And it's surprising how many CEO's in tech don't have a grasp of economics.
Elon doesn't know what the Fed's QE program does or what it means.
Watch investors speak about what they think of the future, and of business, then watch Elon, Zuck etc. speak. There's a marked difference. The investors are economically literate, and usually speak in those terms. Founder don't.
Elon is in 2 business that are fundamentally affected by things like currency, interest rates, consumer credit - Solar City and Tesla. And he never - ever - talks about it.
Most engineers are financially and especially economically illiterate.
But I don't think you actually need to understand econ really well to be a CEO or a good entrepreneur, I just think it's really weird that they don't.
*Georges Lemaitre, and note that he was Catholic, not Evangelical. It's the latter that has a strong cohort of anti-evolution, arguably anti-science-as-a-whole types.
Actually, I was not aware of this, that's really actually quite interesting. Probably the most interesting thing in your dismissal of my flippant use of 2 words :D
People's ideologies and their actions rarely align.
Conservatives talk of 'small government' - and really, truly believe it - but then spend big, especially on defence.
Most bankers would be for 'limited government involvement' but they take bailouts and Fed subsidies.
They are all fairly hypocritical.
Yes, you are right - they are all pragmatically opportunists, trying to build their brands and wealth.
Oh god if that happened... is it possible to die from cringing?
'Buy the way, this is the other part of the deal you just signed!'
I stick my foot in the mouth all the time, but I would never do anything like that.
He's crazy rich, powerful and famous, marrying a young, probably a little naive woman ... the 'roles' seem rather obvious, no reason to demean the poor girl.
I'd say there's probably more diversity working in real estate than most any other large industry. Today you're meeting with some commie union leader, tomorrow a bank prez, next week you're buying off some environmentalist with a donation to their cause. Local political leaders for your plot of dirt could be anything from ultra left to ultra right and you gotta work with them to make your money. Not to mention you're buying and selling to absolutely anyone, money talks. Local urban governments vary from ultra left to moderate and you gotta work with them. The neighbors are all over the political map and if you want them to sign off at the planning commission meeting...
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued...
But by all means, keep trying. Demonstrate exactly how nuanced your view is.
He literally started his career by refusing to rent to black people. Richard Nixon's justice department went after him for it!
I first noticed this with the muddle over who was actually the leader of his campaign team, and then with the Bannon & Priebus setup: giving them equal prominence makes them more subservient to Trump, since if they can't agree they both need to plead their case to Himself.
The myth of the Flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical.[1][2] During the early Middle Ages, virtually all scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat earth among the educated was essentially dead. Flat-Earth models were in fact held at earlier (pre-medieval) times, before the spherical model became commonly accepted in Hellenistic astronomy.[3]
