"I am in a world of highly educated ppl. These are friends with 2-3 degrees each from Stanford, Harvard, Yale."
This says it all. SF has been a shithole for years. The surrounding enclaves (Palo Alto, Cupertino, etc). of the mega rich all share the same politics.
There are still a few conservatives and one or two reasonable leftists in San Jose, but they're either transient students or living in the ghetto or are past retirement age and/or living in their nice homes bought before 1980.
People with a lot of degrees crave feeling like a member of a club that's smarter than everyone else. It's not even principled leftism; it's globbing on to what they believe are appropriate beliefs for an elite. You also see this in them concentrating in the same places: "This is where someone like me ought to live; the rest of the country is a backwater."
People with high IQs and fewer degrees are frustrated that they ARE smarter than everyone else. They don't want to be concentrated in a big city because being around lots of people annoys them.
"I am in a world of highly educated ppl. These are friends with 2-3 degrees each from Stanford, Harvard, Yale."
This says it all. SF has been a shithole for years. The surrounding enclaves (Palo Alto, Cupertino, etc). of the mega rich all share the same politics.
There are still a few conservatives and one or two reasonable leftists in San Jose, but they're either transient students or living in the ghetto or are past retirement age and/or living in their nice homes bought before 1980.
People with a lot of degrees crave feeling like a member of a club that's smarter than everyone else. It's not even principled leftism; it's globbing on to what they believe are appropriate beliefs for an elite. You also see this in them concentrating in the same places: "This is where someone like me ought to live; the rest of the country is a backwater."
People with high IQs and fewer degrees are frustrated that they ARE smarter than everyone else. They don't want to be concentrated in a big city because being around lots of people annoys them.