What would the benefits of an aspie president be?

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I asked this in another thread, but I guess I didn't ask it properly.

What would the benefits of an aspie president be for the country?

An aspie president? An aspie could never be president. We don't speak in tongues like politicians do. To be a politician you must master the art of bullsh*t, something we lack. We're too up front, too black and white, too straightforward with our thinking. Politicians master the rhetoric of gobbledygook. You know that saying in college? If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with BS? Yeah, well, politicians know that all too well and we're incapable of it. It makes us unelectable.

Probably none whatsoever.

Aspies make lousy politicians.

Great policy wonks- but rarely effective policians.

Telling me that he wouldn't get elected is not what I asked. It is a thought exercise... Assume an aspie got elected by being up front and eschewing traditional politics.

Few or none.

ruveyn

Then it would mean our country would be at the brink of collapse. I know what you are trying to get at, but bi-partisanship would not be possible. Honesty is not possible in politics because politicians don't know what they are doing. Since they are expected to know how to solve problems, they lie. An aspie President would be impeached. There's a first for everything.

I disagree... The aspie president would present full transparency and then approach the problem from a logical standpoint.

I believe all the points given so far are irrelevant. Why should we have career politicians? I doubt that the OP's question and intention had any relevance to him wanting to be a p*ssy politician as usual.

That, ironically enough, is part of the platform that I am running on in 2016...

"3) I don't like politicians. I think that the main issue with this country is politicians.

4) I don't claim to know everything. Unlike politicians, when I don't know something, I will tell you. I'm not going to try to BS and spout a lot of nonsense. I will be up front and honest and say, "I don't know. Give me a couple days, and I will look into it."

I think Jimmy Carter would have been the closest we have come to an Aspie President, being and engineer and actually telling the truth about energy issues. Had he continued I wonder if our energy issues would be solved and we would have high speed railroads. But it seems that most Americans hated and hate Carter and voted for Reagan. Since then, no politician has "told the truth". So it looks like now an asperger President is a no no.

Okay... I am getting annoyed...

I didn't ask "will an aspie president ever happen"... I asked a question, which only one person (i think one or maybe two) has bothered to answer...

Autistics are good at solving the worlds problems.

Benefits:

Logical reasoning.
Honesty.
Attention to detail.

Problems with that:

People are not logical. A politician isn't governing processes and data. A politician is governing people. They don't want to hear logic. They want to hear what will make them happy. They don't even want to hear what will work, if it is not what will make them happy.

Honesty. See logic. For all we scream we wish our pols would just tell us the truth, an honest statesman would probably start World War III.

Attention to detail would be nice. It might balance the budget and such, and we really need that. But a President is one person, and things are flying at you fast and thick. I think the executive function issues (especially trouble changing tasks and multitasking) would be bigger negatives than the attention to detail would be a positive.

Bottom line?? Save yourself a massive meltdown for absolutely nothing. Don't try to be the first Aspie President.

Now, being a presidential advisor might be a different story alltogether...

...if you could find a politician that would actually listen to reason.

So should we have a neurotypical president that does not listen to reason. So that means we start a war because the public wants to kick some ass.

Well, that's pretty much what we do, isn't it??

I didn't say it was an empirically good idea. In fact, it's the reason I'd like to move 50 miles from anywhere and learn to do everything myself.

I think it's a really lousy idea. But it is what we have done and what we will continue to do. Because, when the rubber hits the road, it IS what we want to do. The Monkey enjoys it.

No wars.