The co-founder of venture capital firm a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, said social isolation remains a common punishment for those who think differently about certain left-leaning circles in the tech mecca.

Andreessen said this year, the same fissures that have divided the country have led to a fracture in the once-monolithic Democratic stronghold, as nearly every demographic has left the party to varying degrees.

“We are probably experiencing the first profound political realignment since the 1960s,” Andreessen said in an interview with Joe Rogan published Tuesday, arguing that Republicans are now the party of common sense, no war, and the working class.

The co-creator of the world’s first mainstream internet browser feared he would be labeled a “crazy right-winger” for daring to celebrate that it was “morning in America” ​​after Trump won the election, saying he was — like many other constituencies that traditionally supported Democrats — have actually defected from the party.

“I was a Democrat in good standing,” he said, having previously supported Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama.

He even recounted the shock and sadness he felt at dinner with other Silicon Valley friends immediately after Trump’s first victory. They all voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 – including Andreessen himself.

Despite this long-standing voting record, his decision to support Trump over Kamala Harris in this year’s race has resulted in figurative doors being slammed in his face.

“This is actually true: There are two types of dinner parties in Silicon Valley now — they have split neatly in two,” Andreessen told Rogan in a three-hour podcast interview.

On the one hand, there are gatherings he can still attend and where he may run into other first-time Trump supporters like Elon Musk.

But his presence is no longer welcome among what he called “coastal elites.”

“There are those where everyone believes everything that was in it New York Times that day … and that’s what they’re talking about at the dinner party,” Andreessen claimed. “And I’m no longer invited to that and I don’t want to go there either.”

“Lockstep compliance”

Andreessen’s departure from the Democratic Party was primarily – but not exclusively – due to the Biden administration’s attempt to destroy his business by regulating cryptocurrencies, where a16z is the largest venture capital firm.

Instead of the state leveling the playing field so it can focus on calling and striking, he claimed that federal agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) all attempted to fully control the results in various ways.

In his opinion, the goal was to ensure that only a small number of large companies would survive, and all of them agreed to be fully regulated and controlled by the government.

“We had meetings this spring that were the most alarming, where (regulators) presented to us their plans: basically just full government control,” he claimed. “They told us, ‘Just don’t even start a startup, don’t even bother, there’s no way they can be successful, there’s no way we’re going to let that happen.'”

One tactic he said he personally observed was the federal government’s attempt to coerce his business partners and even the father of his own partner, author and Trump supporter David Horowitz, by pressuring banks to give them full access to the financial system withdraw.

Andreessen said the party no longer tolerates dissent within its ranks and instead demands lockstep conformity enforced through cancel culture, effectively reducing Democrats to a religious cult with no chance of redemption.

“You could call it ‘soft totalitarianism,’ which is just arbitrary rules and power that just oppresses everything,” he continued, citing de-banking as just one example.

If Democrats ever want to get out of the mess they’re in, Andreessen advised them to promote prominent far-left critics like New York Congressman Ritchie Torres to leadership positions.

Assets has asked the White House for a response but has not received a response.

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