Slade, I think you misunderstand me. I don’t mean that a services economy moved things Leftward in any macro sense. I agree, it was all about profit.

But I think the working environments of services industries are much more Liberal/Left than those of manufacturing. I’m talking at the level of the individual employee.

Believe me, I worked at “a large software company based near Seattle” as well as some other very big tech firms, and in those places there is significant peer pressure to be “progressive.” As younger workers enter the workforce, the weaker minded are easily taken in by this and go along to get along.

Old time manufacturing may have pushed unionism, but it never pushed “America sucks” the way Progressives do. Services companies also strive mightily for “hipness,” and hip always = Left. That’s the level I’m talking about.