The Not So Subtle Art of Corporate Courtship
Let’s look at the usual suspects, shall we. The tech titans of Silicon Valley seem to have a particular fondness for the Democratic party. Take Alphabet, the company formerly known as Google. Their employees and political action committees funnel millions towards Democratic candidates. Is it because they all sit around discussing progressive social theory? Perhaps. Or, it could be that Democratic stances on immigration help them hoover up the world’s best engineering talent, and their views on net neutrality protect the very architecture their advertising empire is built on. It’s just good business sense.
The same logic applies to Microsoft and Amazon. Microsoft thrives on government contracts for digital transformation, projects often championed by Democrats. Amazon, despite its occasional run-ins with regulators, stands to benefit from infrastructure spending that makes its logistics network even more dominant. When you look at it this way, their political leanings seem less about ideology and more about protecting their very wide economic moats.