Brand New Balaji: Trump/Biden, Jan 6

The Nugget

Tech is forming a new political center around libertarian-right principles, divergent from both traditional left and nationalist-right ideologies, showing strength in leadership and innovation that often surpasses current political establishments.

Make it stick

🌐 Tech immigrants and internationalists: The rise of diverse tech leaders who are often immigrants, internationalists, or part of minority groups, differentiating modern tech from the 1950s American consensus.
🚀 Capitalists over nationalists: Tech's preference for global trade and productivity places them at the center, as opposed to nationalism on the right or socialism on the left.
🛡️ Counter-Elite emergence: Tech's counter-elite possess the leadership and capital allocation skills necessary to challenge existing political institutions.
🔍 Receivership vs Leadership: The current U.S. under Democrat control is compared to a company in receivership, lacking a central leader and being managed by a committee.

Historically, tech aligned more with the Democratic party due to pro-progress and capitalist inclinations.
Increasingly, key tech figures and investors now support the Republican party, drawn by libertarian principles and dissatisfaction with Democrat-led policies and urban decline (e.g., BLM riots, homelessness, censorship).
Tech's internationalist left perspective contrasts with the nationalist right, emphasizing global trade, skilled immigration, and remote work.

Creating tech products entirely in the USA would drastically increase costs, demonstrating tech's need for global supply chains.
Tech's AI and automation goals aim to reduce dependence on large, unionized workforces, in contrast to both right-wing and left-wing policies advocating for more domestic jobs.

The counter-elite composed of tech leaders has filled the talent and IQ void left in traditional political structures.
These leaders, possessing firsthand experience in scaling businesses globally, could efficiently manage political roles traditionally held by bureaucrats with less practical experience.

The video's discussion labels current Democrat-led governance as fostering an ideology of mediocrity and resistance to strong centralized leadership.
The decentralized enforcement of "wokeness" is critiqued for lacking the capability to steer effectively and fostering inefficiency.

"The tech right is in the center because capitalism is the center. Nationalism is the right, and socialism is the left."
"Biden doesn’t exist as a human being; he is literally like a committee vote whose name happens to be Biden."
"The goal is not just tolerance but a kind of insane intersectional credentialism where being gay or brown makes you special and better."
"Democrats are nationalists for Democrats. They are only loyal to their tribe of blues."
"We defeated the far right in the last century, and this century will be an argument between the capitalists and the nationalists."

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