Please don’t go into politics and stuff again I’m trying to understand the reasons and future outlook from a tech perspective.
For others, such as Musk, I don't think it's as much "turning to the right" as it is that many on the left, which used to be a bastion of civil liberties and free speech protection, have abandoned that position and embraced speech suppression.
This has become so pronounced that the label "liberal" is pretty confusing these days, and many folks feel the need to clarify that they believe in "liberalism" as in "Classical liberalism" [2] because many modern "liberals" have moved away from many of those traditional beliefs.
There also seems to be a strong and growing anti-capitalist sentiment in the Democrat party which has driven some business folks that were traditionally "left" away from that ideology.
And while it may sound a bit trite, I think another factor is that they are simply getting older.
The phrase "if you're not a liberal in your 20's you have no heart, if you're not conservative in your 30's you have no brain" has existed in some form since the 1700s [3] and been remarked on even in the American Journal of Medicine [4]. It's pretty common for people's viewpoint to change with age.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sNclEgQZQ
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
[3] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/
[4] https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(16)30193-0/pdf
25 years ago, it was about guns.
There are no reasons or future outlook from a tech perspective.
You exist in a society of people. Technology is quite beside the point.
ELI5: The right is pro-corporations and the left is anti-corporations.
They emphasise Individualism over collectivism, and naturally that goes to smaller non interventionist government philosophy along with anti unionism and low taxes.
Another common component of this is a belief to be poor is bad life choices, and sometimes even genetic: poor people are unsaveable. Why bother? It's innate and/or their own choice.
Since they find and value their own fellow minded people of HNW they aggregate, self confirm, and now organise.
Some (mostly older) tech entrepreneurs and creators are different. Bell labs types, European education, stronger affinity to community and social enterprise, less rigid belief in IPR and their own "rightness"
Gates is somewhat in the middle. Melinda helped him unpack a lot of socially beneficial choices, as did Warren Buffet. I wouldn't call either of them left but they are certainly not Peter Thiel or Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. They appear to appreciate collectivism, at some level.
All possible behavior of the Ruling and Non-Ruling Elites is covered. "Tech" Elites aren't doing anything different from what Elites of the past have done.
This assumption requires scrutiny. One theory is: some of the left moved further left (perhaps without noticing), so from their perspective centrist (or even slightly left folks) now appear as right or far right.
The theory you posit is not supported by the facts.
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Peter Theil owns the potential Vice President and has done since Vance was a student. Theil has long been saddened that women won't vote for his favourite policies, saying he thinks capitalism and democracy are incompatible.