You know one of the blue avatars who posted on this thread has a degree in Physics and another conservative who left has a literal PHD.
Brilliance in one field doesn’t mean someone is also a genius in other fields. Academic credentials are not necessarily a good indicator of wisdom, common sense, or ethics.
[D hack mode]If we want to focus on healthcare professionals in federal politics, look at cardiologist Mehmet Öz’s dubious weight loss prescriptions, neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s sagacious wisdom on housing policy, or veterinarian Kurt Schrader’s
concern for treatment accessibility for human patients (or lack thereof). [/D hack mode]
For a less politically charged example, there’s physicist and one-time Electrical Engineering professor at Stanford Dr. William Shockley (PhD), who is best known for helping commercialize the modern transistor, and his controversial views on eugenics (even by the standards of his time).
And this is something else that distinguishes blue avatars from red ones. We're real people with real jobs, families and other commitments competing for our time while red avatars have always skewed younger/more engaged.
My go-to examples for this would’ve been Xing, Beet, ottermax, sev, and Virginia- all of whom are D-avatars or are widely known as such.
