Palintir CEO Alex Karp:

I didn’t shift my politics. The political parties have shifted their politics. The idea that what’s being called progressive is in any way progressive is a complete farce. I’ve been progressive since the beginning of Palantir. I am continuing to progress. I grew up in a highly intellectually, intellectual, mostly Jewish, incredibly left wing environment. And every saturday and every Friday, I heard a lecture about how the Conservatives are going to destroy this country with illegal immigration, because it’s going to undermine the fabric of the American worker.

That was 50 years ago. That’s what it means to be a progressive. And being progressive doesn’t mean just oh, it feels so good to be involved in dysfunction, things that can never work. A form of socialism that’s never worked. Having no meritocracy. That’s not progressive, That’s pretend. That’s honestly cowardly, and most people, half my old party, knows it. They don’t speak up. It’s bullshit. It will never work, and it does not help. You know, the biggest problem with that is it’s not helping the poor people that they claim to serve. If you think that’s helping a black person in the inner city, you’re ridiculous. The last thing anyone in this country needs is a dysfunctional educational system and handouts that have never worked and are not going to work.