Gay marriage can’t be a partisan issue because as long there are partisan issues or cultural issues in this country, you’ll have trench warfare.” You Don’t Have to Go to College At a 2010 dinner for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, Thiel said, “I believe that gay rights and marriage rights for gay people should not be a partisan issue.
His stance at the RNC appeared to be consistent with previous statements he’s made - all to the effect that America should have better things to worry about than issues concerning the LGBTQ community. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.” This came immediately after he mentioned how he views debates about who gets to use which public bathroom to be a “distraction from our real problems.” He asked the audience, “Who cares?” Thiel also touched, however briefly, on the subject of his own identity at the RNC. In speaking at the RNC, Thiel has distanced himself from the vast majority of his Silicon Valley colleagues, who are so liberal that they even offered to fund California’s secession from the United States on the day after the election. In a short but punchy address, he criticized the relative insulation of Silicon Valley and praised Trump as someone who “builds things.” In a speech, that, in many ways, should have sounded out of place in a Republican-filled arena, he touched on stagnant wages, rising healthcare and college costs, and the wealth inequities propagated by Wall Street bankers and “Hillary Clinton’s speaking fees.” Trump, he said, was the man to fix all that. In addition to making a sizable donation to Trump’s election effort, Thiel was one of the many speakers at the Republican National Convention this past summer. Taking into consideration his past actions, this is what we’ve been able to gather: Donald Trump Will Make a Good President
Likely or not, for better or worse, Americans have an interest in knowing what Thiel believes in. Well, as of a few months ago, it was reported that this contrarian might just find his way onto the Supreme Court. Bloomberg reported that Max Levchin, Thiel’s friend and a Co-Founder of PayPal, said, “It wouldn’t surprise me if the underlying reality of his choice were the sheer contrariness of what he is doing.” Thiel’s true values and beliefs are notoriously difficult to pin down, especially given that support for Trump. In 2016, he chose to donate $1.25 million to Donald Trump. Peter Thiel has been called the “ring leader of the PayPal Mafia.” He’s an avowed libertarian and one of Silicon Valley’s biggest political donors.
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