I think it would be more effective to begin organizing a primary challenge to Nancy Pelosi. Residents of San Francisco have the unique ability to send a message to the minority leader, and therefore, the entire democratic party.
The leverage, or political return on effort, for challenging a house party leader is far greater than for any other elected official. (Senate leaders have far more constituents)
Unfortunately, it's a much more systemic problem than can be solved by ousting a politician here or there.
I encourage everyone who cares about this to get politically involved at a level beyond merely voting for congress critters now and then.
There's a lot that you can do, from joining and supporting organizations like the EFF and the ACLU to getting involved in local politics, which is usually the level that can be most affected by relatively small numbers of individuals.
Yes! Put your money where your mouth is and raise money to oust Pelosi. The tech community is the "moneyed interests" here. They should be able to at least give her a big scare.
The tech industry has been complicit in this, and I think how the Democrat party resonates with them can be summarized as such:
> What you can control cannot hurt you.
I think this explains why those in the tech industry either stand firmly and resolutely with the government (and firmly belonging to the Democrat party), or their political allegiance follows along Libertarian lines because such statements instill a strong sense of anxiety and trepidation.
Are you saying the democratic party controls tech or the other way around? Neither is true. The tech industry is phenomenally impotent in political issues, and neither party cares enough about tech to want to control it.
The tech industry is to the democratic party like the faithful wife who gets cheated on. Tech folks vote reliably democrat, or not at all, so there is zero reason to care about their interests.
The leverage, or political return on effort, for challenging a house party leader is far greater than for any other elected official. (Senate leaders have far more constituents)