news.ycombinator.com• Oct 15, 2023• 1 min read
Ask HN: How did you pivot to politics? (NOT policy)?I'd love to do political consulting... I'm not a great technologist. I'm not a cryptographer, my linux skills are stuck in the 2000s... I'm basically a mid 30s scrip kiddie who did a lot of poetry on the side. I never had the nest egg that enables others to speak like I do in the clear, in the real. I wanted to be a writer, I didn't want to be a lawyer, and I didn't want to waste my parents' money, so I studied "information", the ultimate creative nonfiction.I used to just encourage slow change -- get people to register to vote, not tell them how to, and hope that with each iteration, we'll get closer to how it was when America was formed -- more of a right libertarian versus democratic socialist debate, if we're going to force a two party system. After all, folks seem to forget that George Washington, like myself, was an independent -- I only registered as a democrat out of grave concern for our democracy, after being told by one of the local election judges it is how it is -- you nee
