Social Engineering

I've had several experiences lately that have convinced me that this administration is playing no-holds-bared social engineering. I mentioned the case where I was politically screened during a job interview.

Another example. I was on an interview with a tech company that is creating a product to enhance internet broadcasts of Obama's online speeches. They openly declared their socialist leanings and were perturbed that I wouldn't work for them for the salary that their other software engineers were making - they decided I thought I was better than everyone else, essentially that I was a capitalist pig. But even during the interview process I had solved several of their most pressing technical problems. That's why capitalism works. If I was an average software engineer, I would be satisfied with an average salary. But as studies have shown, it's typical to have a 10x difference in productivity among software engineers (and teams), and I have worked my way into that higher productivity category - I expect to be compensated for my extra production.

Currently I work for a company where, I believe, middle management is being chosen for their demographics, not their competence - and I'm wondering what strings are being pulled to make that happen.