What you're framing as an extremely un-nuanced left/right dichotomy is really a power dichotomy. All the companies you're calling "leftist" seem quite conservative to me, regardless of their supposedly liberal veneer. They act within the existing political/economic system, have every incentive to maintain the status quo, and have nothing to gain by dismantling "the system (man)." They bow to pressures of the market at times, but that is no way a leftist stance.

As an outsider this left vs right stuff in the US is really fascinating and a little bit scary.

(Most) people won't stop selling sandwiches to each other, money is more important. But there is a segment that will. I find it really weird the amount of visceral hate that seems to come out of the woodwork on HN when topics like this come up. Otherwise rational people end up calling for starving people that they disagree with.

Uh, so the solution is to deny food to your fellow human beings because you slightly disagree on marginal political issues?