Spock was a Vulcan, a race devoted to logic, efficiency and ethics. President Spock would never have authorized waterboarding. His bearded doppelganger in the evil Mirror Universe did use torture, but even Bad Spock would never have sold out for a campaign contribution. And President Spock would have been very effective in his use of the Vulcan Mind Meld (what is John Boehner really thinking?), not to mention the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, which he could have deployed on many people on the Hill, starting perhaps with Darrell Issa.
President Spock’s foreign policy would have been principled but realistic. He found violence distasteful and frequently irrational. He could use force with deadly efficiency, but force proportional to the threat. Spock would have criticized U.S. foreign policy as a violation of the Prime Directive against interfering in other cultures.
If we ever did get lucky enough to have a Spock as president, the question is inevitable: Would he have been a Republican or Democrat? Almost certainly Spock would have joined the Democrats. Vulcan tenets such as “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations” or “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one” are hardly Tea Party mantras. Spock was a product of the 24th century, when humanity had eliminated poverty, hunger and racism. That a nation would tolerate such afflictions would seem inconceivable. That the top one percent prospers while the other 99 percent don’t would strike him as not just wrong, but an inefficient allocation of resources.
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