The Shadow Democracy

Amazon is denying police force use of face recognition technology. Google divested from Project Maven. Microsoft is re-considering it's ICE contracts. American technology giants are backing away from supporting their own government at the risk of local and national security. This is alarming.

CEOs aren't doing this by choice. They're being mobbed by their own employee base. Here's the thing -- their employees are not representative of the rest of us. It would be one thing if all Americans wanted to abolish ICE. This isn't the case: 42% support it! A small fraction of costal elites -- the vocal activists in tech companies -- are opining for millions of Americans and billions of Internet citizens. It's like Congress, except it only has a few districts in New York and San Francisco.

America is no longer being governed by democracy. It's being taken over by a shadow democracy of woke activists. 

What's even worse is it isn't the entire company. It's a small collection of activists within the company. Wokeness is the new communism, a virus that is espoused by idea entrepreneurs in a selfish attempt to gather personal power by inciting anger and rancor against the establishment. CEOs feel powerless against the mob and end up capitulating to the hoard.

Activists often talk about about the importance of diversity. I couldn't agree with them more -- except I'm not just talking about diversity of color or gender. We need more diversity of personality. We can't just have a few hipsters from San Francisco decide national security policy over Slack reactions. If tech companies are as powerful as the government, we need representation from the entire country. Engineers from Arizona, from Wyoming, from Texas, people who represent the entire view of the nation. 

We need to fix this, and we need to fix it quickly. If companies are overrun by angry activists who care more about Twitter-dunking than capitalism, America will crumble the same way the USSR did.