In article ,
Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
Our best chance is to wait for a Presidential candidate who
vocally advocates a manned Mars mission, and then vote for them.

There will be no such candidate; waiting for one equals giving up.

No presidential candidate with any hope of being elected is going to be
passionately in favor of *anything* except seeing himself sworn in as
President... because that sort of single-minded dedication is what it
takes to get the job.

So the only reason he would advocate such a thing is that he'd think it
would get him a lot of votes. And space as a spectator sport simply isn't
that popular.
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