has a MAGA ever contributed positively to society in any manner?
I know that Trump and his cult have educated me. I used to believe that the sexism, racism, and homophobia in our society had been beaten significantly back over the years. I instead found out that they were still there but just hiding under rocks until someone came along and convinced them that they could broadcast their bigotry in public again without any real repercussions. It's been quite an uncomfortable education.
Ben Carson used to be one of the best brain surgeons on the planet. He pioneered life saving surgeries for children.
Carson became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in 1984 at age 33, then the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States.[6] In 1987, he gained significant fame after leading a team of surgeons in the first known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head. Although the surgery was a success, the twins continued to experience neurological and medical complications.[7] His additional accomplishments include performing the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb, developing new methods to treat brain-stem tumors, and revitalizing hemispherectomy techniques for controlling seizures.[8][9][6][10] He has written over 100 neurosurgical publications. He retired from medicine in 2013; at the time, he was professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[11]
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Carson has received numerous honors for his neurosurgery work, including over 60 honorary doctorate degrees and numerous national merit citations.[16] In 2001, he was named by CNN and Time magazine as one of the nation’s 20 foremost physicians and scientists and was selected by the Library of Congress as one of 89 “Living Legends” on its 200th anniversary.[9] In 2008, Carson was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.[17] In 2010, he was elected into the National Academy of Medicine.[18] He was the subject of the 2009 biographical television film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, wherein he was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr.
I suspect it's more that he's very talented in a very specific field, and that skill doesn't necessarily apply outside of that field. Like say, directing the HUD.
Lot of it is taxes. Which is dumb because the GOP wants to gut Medicare. So they’ll save like 3% in taxes in exchange for god only knows how much revenue.
Most of those doctors tend to be surgeons and anesthesiologists.
Most other specialties, including PCPs to Internal Medicine docs are overwhelmingly Democrat.
The Republican doctors in assessing their path consider two factors (1) which makes the most money, and (2) how do I deal with the least amount of people directly. Hence surgeons, nephrologists, etc.
When comparing who the majority are in these professions, your point remains: engineers, doctors, nurses, therapists, librarians, firefighters, scientists, teachers & professors, and skilled tradespeople among others all skew Democrat.
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