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From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader
An anonymous reader writes "In the midst of Congressional races around the country, one stands out to techies. Thomas Massie, an MIT whiz kid who pioneered touch-based interfaces and founded SensAble Technologies in the 1990s, is the favorite to win the Republican nomination in his Kentucky district next week. SensAble was recently sold on the cheap, but in a new exclusive, Massie explains why he left the haptics firm years ago to lead a simpler life of farming, family, and guns — lots of guns. Along the way he built a solar-powered, off-the-grid house and became a local hero of the Tea Party. Now Massie is leading the charge to get more engineers into politics, and if he wins, he could be a force to be reckoned with in Washington, DC."
I don't understand why you're being modded a troll. That is a pretty accurate insight.
The Tea Party and its morons actively campaign to spread disinformation, outright lies, and push extreme and regressive religious agendas.
Nobody who is as smart as this guy could possibly be dumb enough to take that nonsense at face value. Clearly, he found a way to play the system, or someone is offering him mountains of cash.
After all, the driving force of the tech industry AND politics is the quest for mountains of cash.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits