The position

You believe humanity's future is to settle other worlds, Mars first, perhaps the Moon as a stepping stone, and that this should happen via the frontier mode: bold private and individual action, fewer treaty constraints, settlement as both the means and the end. Government can help, but the agents are pioneers, not bureaucracies.

Internal variations

Sub-flavors within Frontier Settlerism

Populist01 / 02

Musk-style frontier individualism; mass-appeal Mars rhetoric

Pragmatic-Engineering02 / 02

Mars Society / Zubrin culture; engineering-traditionalist, technically rigorous

In good company with

Public figures placed here

Elon Musk

Cleanest H-F-P-Sett placement. Mass-appeal Mars rhetoric; treaty-skeptical commercial frontier.

Robert Zubrin

Mars Direct architect. Engineering-traditionalist; more science-tolerant than Musk.

Newt Gingrich

Long-standing Mars Society sympathizer; political-frontier rhetoric in the populist register.