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Wait, what?
You know, like Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip.
Wait, what?
This is delusional cynicism if you'll pardon the offense. The Presidency is an enormously powerful tool for affecting national and global policy on almost every subject imaginable--including science & technology. As President you would be in an unparalleled position to champion funding for NIH, DARPA, NASA, and slew of other institutions. Just look at the Human Brain Initiative, Exascale computing, and the reversal of stem cell funding policies as some of the more famous examples. Beyond that the President has the ability to support loan initiatives and similar policies to back promising companies (a la Tesla). Furthermore as President you could conceivably devote a considerable amount of your agenda to a completely new scientific or technological initiative if you so desired.
Unless you are the next Elon Musk I highly doubt you could do more to advance the fields of Science or do more to develop new technologies on your chosen career path than the President of the United States.
And who would your veep be?
Edit: he or she would have to be constitutionally eligible.
And who would your veep be?
Edit: he or she would have to be constitutionally eligible.
The people best suited to the work are the least likely to want the job, either because they can get better pay, or despise the politics. You have to be a real piece of work to become President, nowadays. To focus a lifetime of drive and ambition on such a narrow goal seems sad.
It's like living your life expressly to be Miss America, except that it lasts your entire life, and you are guaranteed to be hated by a large number of people.
Even if you intend to do good, the likelihood of accomplishing much after compromising yourself enough to get elected seems low.
I don't want to be President. I want to be King and then I would fix everything.
Illuminist kings did.How? No king has fixed everything before.
Do you want to be president?