Tech magazine WIRED formally endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a Thursday article titled, “Hillary Endorses Optimism.”
“WIRED has never made a practice of endorsing candidates for president of the United States. Through five election cycles we’ve written about politics and politicians and held them up against our ideals. But we’ve avoided telling you, our readers, who WIRED viewed as the best choice,” Editor in Chief Scott Dadich wrote in his op-ed. “Today we will. WIRED sees only one person running for president who can do the job: Hillary Clinton.”
WIRED editors wrote about two futures, dubbing the future they are afraid of as one dominated by “scarcity.”
“In that future, we build literal and figurative walls to keep out those who hope to acquire our stuff, while through guile or violence we try to acquire theirs.”
But the clouds part, and the sun shines through as Dadich discusses the “new rounds of innovation” that “translates into abundance… Governments and markets and entrepreneurs create the conditions that allow us to take effective collective action against climate change.”
WIRED agreed that Clinton isn’t the ideal candidate, “Our sights might not be perfectly aligned, but it’s pretty clear Hillary Clinton has her eye on a similar trajectory.”
The reasons given revolve primarily on Clinton’s strong stance against global warming, as well as her commitment to increase the budgets of the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, as well as her statement that she will increase the budget of DARPA, a government agency that promotes technological innovations to support the nation’s military.
WIRED magazine was quick to state they don’t agree with Clinton as well.
“As secretary of state, her inclination toward military solutions had disastrous consequences in the Middle East, and the US still has an alarming tendency to try to solve complex foreign policy problems with flying killer robots. Her specific position on encryption is tough to pin down, but she seems to favor encryption weak enough for law enforcement to penetrate. That violates basic privacy.”
The written statement concludes with the following statement comparing Trump and Clinton:
“Her vision is bright and forward-looking; Donald Trump’s is dark and atavistic. She’s qualified, she knows the material; Trump is all bluster. We happen to believe that for all the barbs aimed at Hillary Clinton—the whole calculating, tactical, Tracy Flick enchilada—she is the only candidate who can assess the data, consult with the people who need to be heard, and make decisions that she can logically defend. Sure, she’s calculating. She’s tactical. There are worse things you can ask of a person with nuclear codes.”
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