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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWIRED ENDORSES OPTIMISM
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/wired-endorses-hillary-clinton/#hillary-endorsement-jumpFor nearly a quarter of a century, this organization has championed a specific way of thinking about tomorrow. If its true, as the writer William Gibson once had it, that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed, then our task has been to locate the places where various futures break through to our present and identify which one we hope for.
Our foundersLouis Rossetto, Jane Metcalfe, and Kevin Kellyall supported a strain of optimistic libertarianism native to Silicon Valley. The future they endorsed was the one they saw manifested in the early Internet: one where self-organizing networks would replace old hierarchies. To them, the US government was one of those kludgy, inefficient legacy systems that mainly just get in the way.
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I bring all this up because, for all of its opinions and enthusiasms, WIRED has never made a practice of endorsing candidates for president of the United States. Through five election cycles weve written about politics and politicians and held them up against our ideals. But weve avoided telling you, our readers, who WIRED viewed as the best choice.
Today we will. WIRED sees only one person running for president who can do the job: Hillary Clinton.
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WIRED ENDORSES OPTIMISM (Original Post)
brooklynite
Aug 2016
OP
Says a lot when Hillary is endorsed by those who doesn't normally endorse.
Thinkingabout
Aug 2016
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. Says a lot when Hillary is endorsed by those who doesn't normally endorse.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)2. I've had a subscription ever since I could remember.
Demsrule86
(68,554 posts)3. That is significant...seriously...not kidding. Thanks for posting. nt
TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)5. Definitely. A lot of millenials read Wired. N/t
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FSogol
(45,480 posts)9. I only half-read it.
livetohike
(22,140 posts)4. K&R
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)6. K&R!
AllyCat
(16,178 posts)7. No secret I wanted Sanders. But I've looked at the others...
There is no comparison. Clinton actually knows what she is doing, even if I don't like a lot of what she plans.
hueymahl
(2,495 posts)8. Thought that was a great endorsement
Not partisan, points out areas they have issues with in a level-headed manner, and overall gives a strong endorsement of her (as she deserves). It should carry weight with their reader base (which includes me).
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)10. dudebros ain't gonna like that...