1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Here's Jeff and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Welcome sir. Great to have 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: you here with us high Megandetto's Rush listener since two thousands. 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: I wanna ask what your opinion is on why the 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: tech industry is left leaning. Um. I'm a tech industry person. 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: I've been here working in this industry for thirty years. Um, 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: it's very entrepreneurial. There are no unions. I'm curious as 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: to why it leans left when it seems to me 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: it should be leaning right. You know, this is a 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: question that I have been asking myself my my whole life, 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: because I have been under the impression that all of 11 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: these people self made, UM, very wealthy, are natural born conservatives. 12 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: But they obviously despise conservatism, and they despise conservatives conservative people. 13 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: I despise them. I have to think a large part 14 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: of this is the education system they've grown up under. 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: They've been lied to about conservatives, them in conservatives. Uh, 16 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: they believe that conservatives are racists. They believe it, Jeff. 17 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's not that they think it, 18 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: and they believe it to their core. They believe that 19 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: we're biggots. They believe that we're homophones. They believe all 20 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:25,639 Speaker 1: of these character assassination charges, and they can't they can't 21 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: stomach being thought of that way. You can almost chalk 22 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: it up to marketing and branding that the left has 23 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 1: done a great job of rebranding or misbranding Republicans and Conservatives. 24 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: But there are also other reasons for this, and it's 25 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: nothing more complicated than they survey the land and they 26 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: see that the real power brokers in politics, people they 27 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: identify with power brokers are the Democrats, and so they 28 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: naturally align with with with that group. But I've even 29 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: these two answers I've given you are not solely satisfactory 30 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 1: to me. Um. I look at at this question constantly 31 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: because it's one of the greatest bug a booze that 32 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: I encounter on a daily basis, because we're not anything 33 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: like we are accused of being, and yet the number 34 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: of people who think all those things they say about 35 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: us are true would shock you. But it takes me 36 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: to one more just concluding thought, I want to use 37 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,519 Speaker 1: your question to illustrate what happened here with game Stop, 38 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: and let's look at it. If the reddit raids, if 39 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: the guys on Reddit who were considered the normal ish people, 40 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: not nearly bright enough to do anything on their own 41 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: that makes sense. They're not bright enough to even deal 42 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: with the hedge fund guys. If they had been a 43 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: bunch of leftists, if they had been a bunch of progressives, 44 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: what would they have done after discovering what had happened 45 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: when they discovered that the hedge funds were short selling. 46 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: We're trying to destroy the value of a company they 47 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: didn't even own. They were just trying to wipe it 48 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: out to make big money in the process. What would 49 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: they have done If they were leftists? They would have 50 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: started a protest. They would have started a boycott. They 51 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: would have started Occupy Wall St. They would have been 52 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: so righteously offended over what they were seeing. They would 53 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: have tried to shut down the market. They would have 54 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: tried to force the hedge funds out of business. That's 55 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: not what happened. Because they're not liberals. The Reddit guys, 56 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: the average ordan or millennials. They may not think that 57 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: their conservatives. They may not believe that they are political, 58 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: they may not believe that they are not leftists, but 59 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: they are classic free market conservatives. They understood that they 60 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: had something the hedge fund guys couldn't match. They used 61 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: a free enterprise market to go into competition with the 62 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: head funds. Hedge funds had a better idea, and they 63 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: decided to destroy what the hedge fund guys were trying 64 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: to do. They were competing. They decided the Reddit raiders 65 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: decided to compete against the people that they're supposed to 66 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: bow down to. They decided to compete against them, and 67 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: they ran rings around them and destroyed the original intention 68 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: of the hedge fund guys. And that would not have happened. 69 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: If these people are munch of progressive leftists, it's a 70 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: good sign, folks. We had a caller, great question, why 71 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: do these entrepreneurial tech guys like the facebooks, the Googles, Apple? 72 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: Why you know, how in the hell can these people 73 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: be leftists and be progressive? Folks. I have to tell 74 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: you that they fashion themselves as elites, and they want 75 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 1: to be elites, and they have learned. They can see 76 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: you are not going to be an elite. You're not 77 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: going to be acknowledged as an elite. You will not 78 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: be thought of as an elite. If you are conservative, 79 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna be thought of as a disease. You're gonna 80 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: be thought of as something that's terribly wrong. Uh. Look, 81 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: there are a whole bunch of answers to uh to that, 82 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: to that question, But I really do think that it 83 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: all traces back to education. These people were all young, 84 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: h and when they were young, they were propagandized rather 85 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: than taught. They literally had Conservatism ripped to shreds, ridiculed, criticized, 86 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: and individual conservatives Dittoh same thing. Who wants to be 87 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: thought of as one of those? The fact that they 88 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: are entrepreneurial and self reliant and self starters. Yeah, but 89 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: folks look at them. You may think that, but they 90 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: are able to do what they do and earn what 91 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 1: they earned because the government is enabling the government is 92 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: protecting them. You've heard about Rule to thirty. These people 93 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: have been allowed to set themselves up where they are 94 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:03,119 Speaker 1: not liable for anything said on their platforms. You can't 95 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: sue them for anything that's said on their platforms. That's 96 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: such a big protective cloud that they are able to 97 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: operate under and behind. But there are other things like that. 98 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: This is why you know, I've I've I've tried to 99 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: make comments all last year. How many times were these 100 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: tech people dragged up to virtual hearings some Senate committee 101 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: or some House committee was gonna get to the bottom 102 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: of what they were doing. They're gonna bring them up 103 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: there and they're gonna really face some hard questions and 104 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: never gonna be read to Riot Act and they were 105 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: gonna be told and they better shape up or else, 106 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: and nothing ever happens. And why, I'll tell you why 107 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: they've got so much to offer. They got campaign contributions 108 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: to offer. But more importantly, let's say that you are 109 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: Congressman fog Horn blue Hoorn from pick your favorite state, 110 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: and the guy that runs Google, the guy that runs 111 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: Facebook can assure you that when anybody puts your name 112 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: fog Horn Bluehorn into the search window, that nothing but 113 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: positive stories are going to come back. What would that 114 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: be worth to you? Might it be worth looking the 115 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: other way at what the tech guys are doing when 116 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: they're censoring conservatives, when they are literally preventing the viewpoint 117 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: of over half of the people in this country from 118 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: being mentioned, discussed, and promoted. I think you'd make that 119 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: deal if you're fog Horn blue Horn and you promised 120 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: positive search results and maybe a campaign donation here and there. 121 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 1: That's all it would take. These people are so big, 122 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: they're so powerful. Plus what can they offer fog Horn 123 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: Bluehorn when his legislative career is over. When Congressman fog 124 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: Horn Bluehorn decides that it's over and he wants to 125 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: go into the private sector, why guess what. There could 126 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: be a big position open at Facebook or Google in 127 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: their legal department. And he doesn't have to do any work. 128 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: He's got a no show gig. He's a rainmaker. Fog 129 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: Horn Bluehorn now part of the legal community at Google Mambo. 130 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: He's supposed to generate business that he might and so 131 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: fog Horn Blue Hoorn, who makes a hundred and fifty 132 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: grand as a congressman, leaves Congress, ends up a millionaire. 133 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: And all he had to do was look the other 134 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: way when conservatism was being slimed. That's all he had 135 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: to do.