Donald Trump has done the unthinkable: Unite Silicon Valley

[Zorro]

In a place normally preoccupied with drafting code and dazzling investors, suddenly everyone in Silicon Valley has an opinion about the presidential election. And it tends to be the same opinion.

The innovation economy has a serious distaste for Donald Trump. The masters of this world complain that his ignorance about their work and its relationship to the global economy is horrifying. Rank-and-file programmers are quick to call him a clown, or worse. The unity is notable in an environment where groupthink is frowned upon and nobody ever seems to color inside ideological lines.

Trump has practically written a playbook on how not to court this well-heeled group that other politicians seem desperate to shower with affection.

Ambitious start-up CEOs who swore off talking politics for fear of offending investors are enlisting in campaigns to discredit Trump. Longtime valley Republican stalwarts who have voted for every GOP nominee for decades say they can’t do it this year. The libertarian-minded innovators who just want to get government out of their way have less faith in Trump than they do in even Hillary Clinton, the Democrat with big plans to grow the bureaucracy.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-silicon-valley-20160524-snap-story.html

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. These are educated people. They travel, etc. Their opinions are

what you would hope for from all Americans.

I do get annoyed with these

Longtime valley Republican stalwarts who have voted for every GOP nominee for decades say they can’t do it this year. The libertarian-minded innovators who just want to get government out of their way

assholes who are libertarian now that they have a hundred million in the bank, but even they can understand what is going on.

[longship]

2. I worked in Silly-Con valley for a while.

It was one the two worst jobs I ever had. My boss was an utter asshole. However, I've also interacted with many Silicon Valley folks for years. Many of them are super nice folks. And yes, many are libertarian jerks.

[AngryAmish]

3. I think he has freaked them out with the antitrust stuff.