I'm perplexed by Thiel's inability to grasp how his disdain for "Boomers" and disdain for Pete Buttigieg are contradictory. Thiel advocates against left wing government-funded social benefits (free college education), the very same that Buttigieg isn't as supportive of, causing his lack of popularity with younger voters amongst Democrats like Bernie and Elizabeth Warren!
The whole reason we have these major political divisions is instead of working inward (where the majority of peoples' opinions lie) on compromise, we have power brokers, like Thiel, hating one side so much that they try to push the middle toward the other extreme side. Then, instead of a normal distribution of voting patterns matching political opinion, we have the middle pulled out to each side voting for the edges.
The whole reason we have these major political divisions is instead of working inward (where the majority of peoples' opinions lie) on compromise, we have power brokers, like Thiel, hating one side so much that they try to push the middle toward the other extreme side. Then, instead of a normal distribution of voting patterns matching political opinion, we have the middle pulled out to each side voting for the edges.