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Most of those voters probably have a very poor or non-existent understanding of internet privacy and an even poorer understanding of government's impact on inte
by Bud 9y ago
Most of those voters probably have a very poor or non-existent understanding of internet privacy and an even poorer understanding of government's impact on internet privacy.
- cmurf 9y agoOr they do not care about privacy, they only care about their taxes being lowered while believing that voting GOP will get them lowered taxes.
- chronicy292 9y agoYep. Software engineer at Google in Mountain View here. I voted for Trump. I literally do not give a damn about anything else other than lowering my taxes. I don't care about climate change (it is being accelerated by humans, I agree) and I literally don't care about BART or SF public transit or homelessness. Just give me my clean air vehicle tag so I can drive in the carpool lane as a single driver in my Model S. Yes, there are tens of thousands of people like me in the bay area.
- wfo 9y agoYou are quite right to point this out so explicitly. It is something we all have to deal with -- the way that wealth and power and privilege insulate people from having to care about anything other than their own excess and immunize people against normal human emotions like empathy, kindness, the ability to recognize and appreciate your own luck and consider the misfortune of others, etc. STEM folks are the most susceptible to this, I think -- working in a technical field tends to isolate you from other people. Being wealthy and working in a technical field is horribly alienating. You literally, over time, lose the capacity to understand others or consider them as people.
- tootie 9y agoDouble for working in the valley which is like a giant tech worker gated community.
- shadowchair 9y agoOut of curiosity, do you not care about breathing unhealthy air? Are you aware we just had 5 or so days of unhealthy air (worse than Beijing air quality) because of the wildfires to our north, which are being worsened and increased by climate change? -- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/why-is-2017-so-bad-for-wildfires-climate-change/539130/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/why-is-2...
- tootie 9y agoI think some gross generalization. Reddit's Trump community were pretty strongly supportive of privacy and net neutrality but just decided Trump was ok anyway.
- sixothree 9y agoMy theory is that right wing voters do not really care about policy. They seem to respond more the displays of strength.
- tootie 9y agoThat's a bingo. Exhibit A is Trump giving the keynote at the Values Voters Summit.
- Bud 9y agoReddit's Trump community? So basically, you're talking about the top 0.001% of Trump voters in tech savviness, just by virtue of them being on reddit.
- rhizome 9y agoTrump's base is white people, not (necessarily) dumb people.
- Dylan16807 9y agoPeople aren't dumb for having a poor grasp on internet privacy.
- rhizome 9y agoTrue! I should have been more specific about the form of ignorance.
- gerdesj 9y agoThat's facile and incredibly trite. His base is voters, regardless of creed, race, colour or intelligence. I'm not a Trump fan (nor even American) but I think your analysis of skin colour based demographics is probably flawed in some way.