to take on Donald Trump at next year's US presidential election

rumbles on with a field of candidates gradually being

winnowed down.

I was recently going over some campaign finance data,

and one thing in particular jumped out at me.

Among the most generous donors to the campaign of the leftwing

firebrand Bernie Sanders were employees

of Google, who have so far donated around $135,000

to the Vermont senator.

But even more surprisingly, Google employees

make up the single biggest group of donors

for Elizabeth Warren, the senator who says she actually

wants to break up their employer and other large tech companies.

So why are people who work for some of the world's largest

tech companies actively supporting candidates who say

they want to dismantle them?

Well, in recent media interviews some Google MPs

have said they think it would help their company

to be a bit smaller.

It could make it more nimble, more efficient,

more innovative.

But something larger is also going on here.

There is a growing rift between people

who work in Silicon Valley and the bosses they work for.

Nowhere was this more apparent than last year

when tens of thousands of Google employees

helped push the company to reverse its decision

to work with the US military on its artificial intelligence

capabilities.

The Google employees said they didn't

want the company becoming involved in what they

called the business of war.

Well, to push the company to reverse one project

is one thing.

But if they successfully help bring about its actual breakup,

that would be one of the most astonishing displays of worker

power I can think of.