No, it is the Republican Party, the NRA, Donald Trump, and Peter Thiel who have been hostile to half of America. "Silicon Valley" is merely reacting to this vile hatred peddled by Fox News, WSJ, etc, to save its own life, along with the lives of the rest of the world if efforts like UBI and AI can indeed help improve efficiency in the world and reduce pain and suffering.
Thiel and the Republicans have made it their mission to hate half of America and cause the divide - and then they blame The Left and The Democrats.
No, the man that Russia snuck in to the White House is the leader of this divide, and he was empowered by decades and decades of Republican greed, hate, racism and got-mine-fuck-you attitude.
How about Silicon Valley's warning to Peter Thiel, "go away, you are a poison".