Thomas Jefferson
I’m with Thomas Jefferson on several crucial points that I feel are tremendous errors, for example, that ideas should not be considered owned. I think copyrights, trademarks, and patents are all mistakes, particularly as they are in current US law.
“if nature has made any one thing less susceptible, than all others, of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an Idea; which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the reciever cannot dispossess himself of it. it’s peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. he who recieves an idea from me, recieves instruction himself, without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, recieves light without darkening me.”
He also wouldn’t stand for Citizen’s United, nor all of the corporate corruption in our government, let alone the general stupidity level.