it is also reflection of passive position techies occupy in life, ie. the fact that zoning boards and other pieces of government aren't actively affected by the new population. Have salary enough to pay my way through and in good health to get a date - life is grand ... don't care for the rest (who brought it on themselves by not getting a CS degree) or can't do much to help even if feel like care. Note: i don't bash here because i myself was that way and pretty much is in many respects.

One of the underlying reasons for such non-involvement may be the fact that politics is really a thinly veiled violence, and my generation - gen-X - and the millenials found the sanctuary from it (i.e. feeling like they found it as such sanctuary is impossible, just an illusion of it if you can afford it) in technology.

we make an easier target.