If Peter Thiel represents a political opinion, one is well advised usually to listen carefully. Not because the man had been right so often: Thiel is one of the wealthiest and most powerful investors in Silicon Valley, and at the same time someone who takes without flinching anti-democratic positions.
Consequently, Thiel is also the only Silicon Valley celebrities that openly supports Donald Trump. Maybe it’s because of the promises precisely the destruction of the democratic institutions, the Thiel considers to be a large Problem.
In an Essay that the English published-born Paypal co-founder in 2009, you can’t read it until today uncensored: “I believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” wrote Thiel at the time. The Text contains a large number of such head-shaking sets, for example, the assertion that “the twenty years of the last decade of American history”, “where you could be, with a view to the policy seriously optimistic”. As a reminder: at that Time, for example, racial segregation in USA was still normal.
The right of women to vote – a step in the wrong direction?
way Stupid, Thiel, are gone in the US since then, too many things wrong. The “huge increase in recipients of social benefits and the extension of the suffrage to women”, it was in 1920, had transformed “the concept of ‘capitalist democracy’ is a contradiction”.
Because of this attitude, not surprisingly, a lot of wind brought, added Thiel a striving acting defense: It should of course be “absurd to suggest that the women the right to vote,” said Thiel. What he meant, only for his own political preference unpleasant “choice of patterns” between women, “the so-called Gender Gap”.
Why is it called “son of a bitch”?
This Gender Gap there is, in fact, in the United States since about the fifties. He is, however, different than the white, male billionaire, Thiel sees it, a reason for optimism. You could take this statistical difference between the voting behavior of men and women, so in short: women are less heart – and ruthless. They vote less often for candidates with clearly aggressive, militaristic and hostile positions. There is a reason that it’s called “son of a bitch”.
For the USA, found out the at the University of Stanford working as a psychologist Felicia Pratto already in the mid-Nineties, that “women have a different attitude to the basic values that Americans find in the cut is important, and while social compensation”.
of Course, stressed Pratto at the time, there are women who put more value on social hierarchies and that the men are more committed to social justice. But on average, a gender exist just difference.
women in the United States, accordingly, have more something against the discrimination of Black, Gay, or lesbian women, they have less prejudice towards immigrants and are more interested in the well-being of disadvantaged children. In 2009, a survey of nearly 150,000 Betpipo US showed voters that women are interested in the average more frequently with the Democrats than the Republicans.
The man would have been able to know, love Republicans
Felicia Pratto had been in the nineties, a valuable piece of advice for US party leaders: you should get more women in vital roles, the psychologist says, “especially more women, to understand better what the majority of women in the United States politically interested”. It took a bit.
the advice, in the meantime, especially the Democrats, motivated probably by Donald Trump, the stands for almost everything that is on men ugly. In the newly assembled house of representatives will sit for the first Time in history, 100 or more women. 87 of them Democrat. Maybe it was in the Midterms not quite the “blue wave”, of which the Democrats had dreamed of – a “female wave” there was in each case. Or, to put it even more clearly: Without candidates and voters Trumps would have won a Republican.
In Germany there is a similar pattern
really so far to the right gerutschten Republicans have succeeded, actually, in any case only for one group: white men, with a score of over 60 percent. 59 percent of women voted for the Democrats.
Among black voters, according to CNN Exit Poll even as high as 92 percent among women with Latin American roots, almost three-quarters. Only at the white women half of for Trumps Republican, which is primarily due to voters with a low level of education: White women decided almost exactly with a College degree preferred almost everywhere, the democratic candidate.
Peter Thiel has not meant, probably, but it is what it is in the political Gender Gap: If you wish for a policy of ruthlessness, of resentment, of taste, of sexism, and the destruction of the environment, it’s best to only white men to choose from. Voters and candidates do capitalist democracies better, not to the “opposition”, as Thiel thinks.
you don’t Understand me wrong: I’m a white man, and I find myself, to be honest, quite nice. But some of my species are not more likely to.
This is also true in this country where women are not allowed to since exactly one hundred years ago, the Federal election in 2017, party gifts, whose core theme is the resentment is, 16 percent of male voters cast their votes. Of the voters, however, only nine percent voted for the AfD.
