Editing Scott Adams (section)

==Political views==
Adams has often commented on political and social matters, although he said in 2016 "I don't vote and I am not a member of a political party."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scottadamssays.com/whos-afraid-of-donald-trump/|title=Who's Afraid of Donald Trump?|author=Adams|first=Scott|date=March 24, 2016|work=Scott Adams Says|access-date=November 7, 2019|archive-date=August 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220822171616/https://www.scottadamssays.com/whos-afraid-of-donald-trump/|url-status=dead}}</ref> As of 2008, Adams identified his views on social issues as "[leaning] [[Libertarianism in the United States|libertarian]], minus the crazy stuff."<ref>{{cite news |date=September 16, 2008 |title=Commentary: Dilbert guy's economic poll on McCain, Obama |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/dilbert.economy/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815053041/http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/dilbert.economy/index.html |archive-date=August 15, 2010 |access-date=May 23, 2010 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> After endorsing [[Mitt Romney]] for the 2012 US presidential election,<ref>{{cite web |author=Scott Adams |date=October 17, 2012 |title=Firing Offense |url=https://www.scottadamssays.com/firing-offense/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018111032/http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/firing_offense |archive-date=October 18, 2012 |access-date=January 10, 2018 |work=The Dilbert Blog}}</ref> Adams endorsed [[Donald Trump]] in the following, 2016 election. During that election, he wrote extensively on Trump, praising his persuasion skills<ref>{{cite web |date=February 18, 2016 |title=The Trump Master Persuader Index and Reading List |url=https://www.scottadamssays.com/the-trump-master-persuader-index-and-reading-list/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108045312/https://www.scottadamssays.com/the-trump-master-persuader-index-and-reading-list/ |archive-date=November 8, 2021 |access-date=November 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 6, 2015 |title=Dilbert Creator Scott Adams on Donald Trump's "Linguistic Kill Shots" |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55NxKENplG4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/55NxKENplG4 |archive-date=December 11, 2021 |website=[[ReasonTV]] |via=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and later described this activity as harming his public speaking career, income and friendships.<ref name="persuasion">{{cite web |date=July 11, 2016 |title=When Persuasion Turns Deadly |url=https://www.scottadamssays.com/when-persuasion-turns-deadly/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220822171346/https://www.scottadamssays.com/when-persuasion-turns-deadly/ |archive-date=August 22, 2022 |access-date=November 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2, 2021 |title=MAGA Icons: Where Are They Now and Are They OK |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFUr6Px99aQ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812104451/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFUr6Px99aQ |archive-date=August 12, 2022 |access-date=August 12, 2022 |website=[[Vice News]] |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> He also spoke against Trump's opponent [[Hillary Clinton]], expressing concerns that Clinton's candidacy would lower the status of men in America.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 27, 2016 |title=Selling Past the Close |url=https://www.scottadamssays.com/selling-past-the-close/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220822171610/https://www.scottadamssays.com/selling-past-the-close/ |archive-date=August 22, 2022 |access-date=November 7, 2019 |website=Scott Adams Says}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=October 15, 2016 |title=Early Coffee with Scott Adams |url=https://www.periscope.tv/ScottAdamsSays/1lPKqYQQgelKb?t=1h17m |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718034031/https://www.periscope.tv/ScottAdamsSays/1lPKqYQQgelKb?t=1h17m |archive-date=July 18, 2022 |access-date=May 31, 2022 |quote=If — keep in mind that — if Clinton gets elected, there'll never be another male president. Let me say that again. If Hillary Clinton gets elected, there will never be another male president. Let me say that a third time. If Hillary Clinton gets elected. There will never be another male president.}}</ref> In 2017, Adams described his views as supporting left-wing policies he perceived as realistic.<ref name="leftsanders">{{cite web |date=September 21, 2017 |title=How a Silicon Valley Investor Does Leadership |url=https://www.scottadamssays.com/how-a-silicon-valley-investor-does-leadership/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220822171618/https://www.scottadamssays.com/how-a-silicon-valley-investor-does-leadership/ |archive-date=August 22, 2022 |access-date=November 7, 2019 |work=Scott Adams Says}}</ref>

Adams has made various predictions about politics. Early in the 2016 election Adams predicted Trump would win based on his analysis of how persuasive the candidates were. As Trump gained momentum, Adams' election analysis gained media and popular attention.<ref name="Hypnotized" /> Later predictions repeatedly featured in ''[[Politico]]'' magazine's annual lists of "Worst Predictions", including that one of Trump, [[Bernie Sanders]] and [[Joe Biden]] would die from [[COVID-19]] by the end of 2020,<ref>{{cite web |last=Stanton |first=Zack |date=December 29, 2020 |title=The Worst Predictions of 2020 |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/29/worst-predictions-about-2020-451444 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229182244/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/29/worst-predictions-about-2020-451444 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref> that "Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the [[2020 U.S. presidential election]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stanton |first=Zack |date=December 24, 2021 |title=The Worst Political Predictions of 2021 |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/24/worst-politics-predictions-2021-525853 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227235426/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/24/worst-politics-predictions-2021-525853 |archive-date=December 27, 2021 |access-date=December 28, 2021 |website=[[Politico]]}}</ref> and that the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 presidential election]] would result in a "landslide" of claims the election was rigged and the results ultimately overturned in Trump's favor by the Supreme Court.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 20, 2024 |title=The Outright Worst Political Predictions of 2024 |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/20/worst-political-predictions-of-2024-00194856 |website=POLITICO}}</ref>

After [[Highland Park parade shooting|a 2022 mass shooting]], Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die, or murder their own son. He said his comments were inspired by his own stepson, who became addicted to drugs at the age of 14 and later died of a [[fentanyl]] overdose.<ref>{{Cite web |last=D'zurilla |first=Christie |date=July 6, 2022 |title='Dilbert' cartoonist Scott Adams has a bleak take on our 'dangerous young man problem' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-07-06/scott-adams-angry-young-men-solutions |access-date=March 5, 2023 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305063623/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-07-06/scott-adams-angry-young-men-solutions |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ross |first=Martha |date=July 6, 2022 |title=Scott Adams slammed for saying death is only option for troubled boys |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/06/scott-adams-slammed-for-saying-death-is-only-option-for-troubled-boys |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712090927/https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/06/scott-adams-slammed-for-saying-death-is-only-option-for-troubled-boys/ |archive-date=July 12, 2022 |access-date=August 20, 2022 |website=[[The Mercury News]]}}</ref> Adams has stressed his opposition to being considered pro-[[Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic|masking]] and pro-[[COVID-19 vaccines]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 3, 2023 |title=Scott Adams vs. Ben Garrison: Cartoon Wars |url=https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/01/03/scott-adams-vs-ben-garrison/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108054116/https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/01/03/scott-adams-vs-ben-garrison/ |archive-date=January 8, 2023 |access-date=January 8, 2023 |website=The Daily Cartoonist}}</ref> and he believes that people unvaccinated against COVID-19 are less likely to contract the disease than vaccinated people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kertscher |first=Tom |date=January 26, 2023 |title=Unvaccinated people more at risk of COVID infection, death |url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/26/scott-adams/no-dilbert-creator-is-wrong-about-unvaccinated-the/ |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=[[PolitiFact]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the numbers of deaths in the [[Holocaust]] were based on methodologically sound research.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Juliana |date=February 28, 2023 |title=Cartoonists say a rebuke of 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams is long overdue |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159605012/dilbert-cartoonist-scott-adams-rant-rebuke |access-date=September 17, 2024 |website=[[NPR]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Harpaz |first=Beth |date=2023-03-03 |title='Dilbert' cartoon creator once questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/538571/dilbert-cartoon-creator-scott-adams-holocaust-blog/ |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=[[The Forward]] |language=en |archive-date=March 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304010456/https://forward.com/fast-forward/538571/dilbert-cartoon-creator-scott-adams-holocaust-blog/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2023, Adams suggested the 2017 [[Unite the Right rally]] was "an American intel op against Trump."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Settles |first=Gabrielle |date=March 10, 2023 |title=Unite the Right rally was real, not a staged 'intel op' |url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/10/scott-adams/unite-the-right-rally-was-real-not-a-staged-intel/ |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=[[PolitiFact]] |language=en-US |archive-date=September 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240917064224/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/10/scott-adams/unite-the-right-rally-was-real-not-a-staged-intel/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2020, Adams said that the ''Dilbert'' TV show was cancelled because he was white and UPN had decided to focus on an African-American audience, and that he had been discriminated against.<ref>{{cite web |first=Margareaux |last=Sippell |date=June 29, 2020 |access-date=June 25, 2022 |title='Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Says His UPN Show Was Canceled Because He Was White |url=https://www.thewrap.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-says-his-upn-show-was-canceled-because-he-was-white/ |website=[[TheWrap]] |archive-date=August 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810235231/https://www.thewrap.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-says-his-upn-show-was-canceled-because-he-was-white/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In a series of comic strips in September 2022, ''Dilbert'' parodied [[environmental, social, and corporate governance]] (ESG) strategies. Part of the plotline involved a black character who "identif[ied] as white" and the company management asking him if he could also identify as gay.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Adams |first1=Scott |title=Dave And Esg - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2022-09-20 |url=https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-09-20 |website=dilbert.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929025803/https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-09-20 |archive-date=29 September 2022 |date=29 September 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref>