I'm pretty sure it was well paid tech employees who were a deciding factor in why Kshama Sawant got reelected so this stuff isn't really so simple. Millennials just want someone who actually gives a shit and isn't going to be corrupted by money or political pressure, this goes beyond people actually wanting the country to become socialist.
That particular complaint you're referring to is something I've seen leading activists from every left/liberal org in the city say (DSA, Seattle people's party, different urbanism orgs, ect.), They all still vote for her if they live in the district though.
There are definitely some tech people who hate her, but the hill went like 90% her way and far more than 10% of the people who live here are tech workers. Most tech workers just vote for whoever the stranger endorses and don't think twice.
At least 1/3 of this group isn't a US citizen, among tech workers in the US, probably closer to 1/2. The immigrant group is definitely more right wing or centrist than the employees who almost entirely fall somewhere on the lib/left spectrum. The association with the right/republicans in the tech world isn't among people working programming jobs, it's people who want to be entrepreneurs, and even then it's still much more lib.
The point here is, the ideological center of the tech industry is probably still to the left of Yeglasias, but the majority of people are a lot like him politically.
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I feel like "well-paid tech-employed" is just a nice way of saying neoliberal if we're talking about those not on the left.
I'm pretty sure it was well paid tech employees who were a deciding factor in why Kshama Sawant got reelected so this stuff isn't really so simple. Millennials just want someone who actually gives a shit and isn't going to be corrupted by money or political pressure, this goes beyond people actually wanting the country to become socialist.
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That particular complaint you're referring to is something I've seen leading activists from every left/liberal org in the city say (DSA, Seattle people's party, different urbanism orgs, ect.), They all still vote for her if they live in the district though.
There are definitely some tech people who hate her, but the hill went like 90% her way and far more than 10% of the people who live here are tech workers. Most tech workers just vote for whoever the stranger endorses and don't think twice.
It's the Yang Gang and Musk fanboys
They are that Centrist techbro demographic the dems have decided is their base. Even if they aren't.
At least 1/3 of this group isn't a US citizen, among tech workers in the US, probably closer to 1/2. The immigrant group is definitely more right wing or centrist than the employees who almost entirely fall somewhere on the lib/left spectrum. The association with the right/republicans in the tech world isn't among people working programming jobs, it's people who want to be entrepreneurs, and even then it's still much more lib.
The point here is, the ideological center of the tech industry is probably still to the left of Yeglasias, but the majority of people are a lot like him politically.