Bernie Sanders is seeing a surge of support from well-off,leftwing staff at tech firms such as Apple and Google. Is it because they can see the game is rigged?For the first time in a long time, it’s fun to be a member of the American left. A socialist is within spitting distance of the White House. Bernie Sanders may not win the nomination, or but his extraordinary primary run has proven the mainstream viability of leftwing politics in a country that’s spent decades drifting to the fair. The core pieces of the coalition that’s made his achievement possible are well-known from exit polls: millennials,lower-income Americans, and independents. But Bernie’s also benefited from another, and more surprising bloc of support,one that may prove just as valuable to the future of American leftism: tech workers.
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Source: theguardian.com