Glenn Beck

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excerpt/ The whiz kids of Silicon Valley are celebrating the GOP’s apparent collapse on Net Neutrality. The New York Times exults: “the little guys appear to have won.” It omits that the “little guys” are some of the richest people in America, and–by their own lights–the smartest. The odd thing is that the nerds who have an app for everything seem to be unable to explain what Net Neutrality actually is, and why we need it. Case in point: Tuesday’s epic failure by Tumblr CEO David Karp on CNBC.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/24/net-neutrality-silicon-valleys-whiz-kids-are-stumped/

That dichotomy was perhaps best exemplified by the late Aaron Swartz, the young Internet pioneer who was ultimately betrayed by the Obama administration he and his millennial, tech-savvy cohort had brought to power.

Swartz helped prevent the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) from becoming law in 2012. He later recalled: “There was just something about watching those clueless members of Congress debate the bill, watching them insist they could regulate the Internet.”

And yet Swartz’s political organization, Demand Progress, is one of the main proponents of Net Neutrality, which would hand the federal government–the executive, not Congress–the power to regulate the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, a law older than Sen. John McCain.

Strip away the technological trappings, and what lies at the core of Silicon Valley’s progressivism is just old-school statism–much to the surprise of Silicon Valley itself.

Last year, a Reason-Rupe poll revealed that two-thirds of millennials believe that government is inefficient and wasteful–and yet the same proportion want more of it. It is a paradox with which they are rarely confronted–and when they are, as David Karp was on CNBC, they sit, stupefied and stunned.

Karp’s ineffectual response was a sophisticated version of the “underpants gnomes” theory of business, a blind faith in innovation without incentives, investment without real returns.

Silicon Valley is enamored of the power it created and unleashed to take over the Democratic Party after 2004, to nominate and re-elect Barack Obama, to pass Obamacare and to push gay marriage. It believes it is perfecting a kind of participatory democracy.