But I've noticed a tendency over the past 3-4 years for Apple and Apple related organizations to be visibly political; always with a liberal slant. Little things here and there but the first time I noticed it was when the Apple home site made a big deal about colored imacs being used at the DNC convention before the 2000 election. Then there was the big fan-fare over Carter on their home page and electing Gore to their board.
As this was going on with the corporation a parallel transformation was going on with the various Apple news/rumors/support websites. Many completely unpolitical topics posted at mac sites would turn into conservative-bashing leftist spouting threads. I didn't see any behavior like this during most of the nineties.
So this article prominently featured on one of the more mainstream Macintosh websites caught my attention. Macs are used by lots of people who do a whole bunch of neat things. Why concentrate on a bunch of leftist weenies whose alternative to Bush would be world socialism?
Now I fully admit that this might simply be a side effect of the "new tone" in Washington. Where Republicans are supposed to reach out and understand the concerns of leftist nut-jobs. And leftist nut-jobs are supposed to reach out and bash conservatives over the head with protest signs from atop their 4 foot tall stilts while banging a drum and yelling incoherent marxist dogma. Obviously, in the past three years we have seen an increase in the volume of the leftists in all walks of life. Music, TV, literature, colleges, churches, what-have-you.
So I guess it could be that there aren't really more socialists/leftists/democrats using macs nowadays, they're just louder. And I'm just foolishly getting distracted by it.