the propaganda machine of the left have done remarkably well at demonizing any- even extremely soft- right-wing/conservative values to such an extent that......https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1041383655443062784 …
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I hear this a lot, but it kinda seems to come down to "is rich" & "understands how wealth works" (a terrible skill to neglect when you actually have wealth). Seems like it's less about values & more about which bucket "wealthy person" gets placed in within the ID politics frame
If you remove "fiscal conservatism," which afaict used to mean "small government" & now means "any reasonable understanding of how money works," what about SV techies looks right-wing at all? It's a stretch. They're not religious. They're not having kids.
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only dipping in to say wait lol they are *TOTALLY* religious, it's just a new religion - earth mother goddess shit, 'we are all one,' rigid creation and apocalypse myths framed with meaning (nihilistic birth, death by selfishness), hostile contempt for inconvenient science
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I would totally buy that they're cognitively-determined pagans as a direct result of the same slightly wonky pattern-matching equipment that makes them good at whatever it is that keeps the lights on in San Francisco, but that's def not "right-wing" "religion"
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