Ted Cruz told the New York Times that he identified with Star Trek's Captain Kirk more than Captain Picard because he felt that Kirk was more of a conservative and Picard more of a liberal.

Kirk is working class; Picard is an aristocrat. Kirk is a passionate fighter for justice; Picard is a cerebral philosopher. The original ‘‘Star Trek’’ pressed for racial equality, which was one of its best characteristics, but it did so without sermonizing.

He's right.

Kirk:

o Stole cloaking device technology from the Romulans (The Enterprise Incident)

o Destroyed a Romulan attacking ship to show the Romulans that the Federation wasn't weak (Balance of Terror)

o Destroyed a communist-inspired computer that controlled everyone's behavior  (Return of the Archons)

o Allowed his naive liberal girlfriend to die so she could not persuade America to disarm (City on the Edge of Forever)

o Fought tribal Arab-like extremists with killer Frisbees (Friday's Child)

o Fought space Nazis (Patterns of Force)

o Fought Romans in gladiator arenas (Bread and Circuses)

o Overturned a society ruled by ignorant women who steal men's brains to control their government (Spock's Brain)

o Joined forces with a reincarnated Abraham Lincoln to fight Klingons

Picard:

o Informed the Romulans that the Federation was secretly making cloaking devices (The Pegasus)

o Went to the Boko Haram planet where he permitted black fanatics to abduct Lt. Yar (Code of Honor)

o Lectured someone revived from the 20^th century that money is of no further importance (The Neutral Zone)

o Returned a human boy who was abused to his adopted alien family because in the alien culture, it is okay to beat up young boys (Suddenly Human)

o Arrested a scientist whose crime was to kill a mass murdering monster (Silicon Avatar)

o Approved of Riker's romance with an androgynous creature (The Outcast)

o Refused to destroy the entire Borg threat because there would be one innocent casualty (I Borg)

What about the other candidates?  Do you think Jeb Bush identifies with Captain Picard?  And do you think Lindsey Graham identifies with Captain Kathryn Janeway?

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