You need to check your enthusiasm for donor stats that seem to be your anecdotal source
It sounds impressive until you realize that $2 million is not a huge sum spread out over such a large workforce. It also doesnt differentiate among career hires vs political appointees, who of course would donate to the party that hired them. And some are wealthy enough to make sizeable donations to buy their present and future jobs
Unfortunately the civil service union is typically liberal but as we see, union members dont always follow their leaders preferences
Our 20 years of civil service experience, when politics is even discussed which it is NOT on the job, is pretty “ conservative”, maybe because it is DoD and so many are retired or former miitary or contractor folks with similar work ethic and values as the military
Here are some statistics for reference
27% FedGov is union
31% of FedGov is veteran
You need to check your enthusiasm for donor stats that seem to be your anecdotal source
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Its not a matter of “enthusiasm”; its a matter of recognizing the reality that government workers love the hand that feeds them and fear the thought of having to produce and compete in the private sector. They love their secure cocoon. And I find it odd that you characterize data from Federal Election Records as “anecdotal”.
I have worked with countless people inside a broad swath of many different federal agencies and can assure you that the vast majority of civilian employees are Democrats. Its so glaringly obvious to all but a few.
I’ve also been in the military and worked inside DoD. I do agree that that environment is a little different politically but I wouldn’t be surprised to see that it too is becoming bluer over time.