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A lot of people on the left side of the political spectrum are starting to wake up to the fact that many people start startups as Democrats, but quickly become strongly libertarian in their economic views as they come face to face with the realities of government waste, regulation, and corruption.

The Uber and AirBnB founders are unlikely to pull the lever for statists, for example. And this is very dangerous to the progressive movement as startup founders tend to be smartest and most resourceful of their peers. Huge amounts of money has been invested in making sure all college grads mouth fashionable left-of-center slogans on economics, but the movement started by Paul Graham inadvertently threatens to unwind all that.

This article is motivated by that realization and is one (vain) attempt to bring entrepreneurs back into the fold. There are other attempts too, like "Startup America". But in the longer term these efforts are unlkely to succeed as more and more people at early stage companies encounter manifest contradictions between their lived experience and the religion of their birth -- namely progressivism.