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What issues from the republican side would a tech worker want to support?

Especially the republicans that ran in the midterms(with an actual plan besides let's troll the dems)

- Re-examining the policy of permanent warfare by the US and the continuing expansion of the military-industrial complex

- personal freedoms, including the rights of free speech, free assembly, and freedom from unreasonable electronic search and seizure

- protection of 2nd amendment rights, admired and envied by many around the world

- You mean the wars started by Bush? - Both parties have zero credibility in that respect, republicans stance on free speech is as much perfomative bs as woke posturing is on the left. There is plenty of cancel culture and attempts to suppress dissenting speech on the right, just listen to the average fox news outrage rant. - There is absolutely no country that is envious of our gun problem, quite the contrary. Also always good to remember a large majority of Americans are in favor of reasonable gun controls, so was the NRA at one time, yet Republicans continue using the 2nd amendment as wedge issue to get people to vote for them. There are other rights in the constitution you know.

Lower taxes for the rich?

the rich already have lower taxes. if your talking upper middle class maybe but that would probably just shift the taxes on to the lower middle class and poor. which would lower their spending power. so you'd drive up asset prices and lower consumer spending.

I'm not advocating for the strategy, I'm suggesting a possible reason why a tech worker would vote or support a US Republican. They probably make more than your average American, and therefore have a financial incentive to support a political party promising lower taxes.

I think that's part of the issue this election cycle they weren't really offering that.

many rich people at bigtech got there through national funding in science and engineering. They conclude that taxes, which helped fund their education, could actually be a good thing as it helps us grow the next generation of geniuses.

I also met many people who had fled the midwest because they found it intolerant- gay people, democrats, etc. They like the Bay Area (home to many of the bigtechs) because it's much more liberal.

why not? US population seems to be 40 to 60% for each side, oscillating during the years.

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