You can be libertarian or centrist, you can not be both. Also developers and geeks are left wing fairly commonly. You write as if all geeks and developers were right or something. They are not.

> Gen Z is 10x more accepting of violence to suppress speech they object to compared to Boomers.

That is direct result of practicing taboo topics like violence and normalizing them. A lot of effort was put into making them more aggressive, so success. Mostly on the right, contrary to what you are trying to imply. The violence aggression and censorship are much more common there.