>>11411113>>11411507Here's the thing. It can't be guaranteed what a Sander's presidency space policy will be. His interest in spaceflight specifically hasn't been defined well and the opinions of people speculating on it in a negative manner from their estimations of his politics can stem from their own erroneous misinterpretations of that that Sanders may not live up to in the slightest.
NASA is one small section of the portfolio a President presides over and formulates policy for. Space policy people who deal with that subject will craft and present policy for the President. Whatever you think of his politics that doesn't mean it filters top down into what happens to NASA: rather that people in the new admin will run the policy formulation process for that narrow niche.
What they end up crafting isn't guaranteed. Whether there are good people among them isn't guaranteed. By good I mean people who aren't lackeys to the current order.
What some here have decried as being bad can in fact be good stewardship for the agency. Formulating good planning within budgets, cancelling problematic programs even if their downsides have been hidden behind rhetoric and cheerleading, these can all be fine, and the people whining the most are wrongheaded or purposefully malicious. But again, whether a Sanders admin would actually do that versus continue a similar status quo is up in the air.
