Speaker 1: Here's Jeff and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Welcome sir. Great to have
Speaker 1: you here with us high Megandetto's Rush listener since two thousands.
Speaker 1: I wanna ask what your opinion is on why the
Speaker 1: tech industry is left leaning. Um. I'm a tech industry person.
Speaker 1: I've been here working in this industry for thirty years. Um,
Speaker 1: it's very entrepreneurial. There are no unions. I'm curious as
Speaker 1: to why it leans left when it seems to me
Speaker 1: it should be leaning right. You know, this is a
Speaker 1: question that I have been asking myself my my whole life,
Speaker 1: because I have been under the impression that all of
Speaker 1: these people self made, UM, very wealthy, are natural born conservatives.
Speaker 1: But they obviously despise conservatism, and they despise conservatives conservative people.
Speaker 1: I despise them. I have to think a large part
Speaker 1: of this is the education system they've grown up under.
Speaker 1: They've been lied to about conservatives, them in conservatives. Uh,
Speaker 1: they believe that conservatives are racists. They believe it, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's not that they think it,
Speaker 1: and they believe it to their core. They believe that
Speaker 1: we're biggots. They believe that we're homophones. They believe all
Speaker 1: of these character assassination charges, and they can't they can't
Speaker 1: stomach being thought of that way. You can almost chalk
Speaker 1: it up to marketing and branding that the left has
Speaker 1: done a great job of rebranding or misbranding Republicans and Conservatives.
Speaker 1: But there are also other reasons for this, and it's
Speaker 1: nothing more complicated than they survey the land and they
Speaker 1: see that the real power brokers in politics, people they
Speaker 1: identify with power brokers are the Democrats, and so they
Speaker 1: naturally align with with with that group. But I've even
Speaker 1: these two answers I've given you are not solely satisfactory
Speaker 1: to me. Um. I look at at this question constantly
Speaker 1: because it's one of the greatest bug a booze that
Speaker 1: I encounter on a daily basis, because we're not anything
Speaker 1: like we are accused of being, and yet the number
Speaker 1: of people who think all those things they say about
Speaker 1: us are true would shock you. But it takes me
Speaker 1: to one more just concluding thought, I want to use
Speaker 1: your question to illustrate what happened here with game Stop,
Speaker 1: and let's look at it. If the reddit raids, if
Speaker 1: the guys on Reddit who were considered the normal ish people,
Speaker 1: not nearly bright enough to do anything on their own
Speaker 1: that makes sense. They're not bright enough to even deal
Speaker 1: with the hedge fund guys. If they had been a
Speaker 1: bunch of leftists, if they had been a bunch of progressives,
Speaker 1: what would they have done after discovering what had happened
Speaker 1: when they discovered that the hedge funds were short selling.
Speaker 1: We're trying to destroy the value of a company they
Speaker 1: didn't even own. They were just trying to wipe it
Speaker 1: out to make big money in the process. What would
Speaker 1: they have done If they were leftists? They would have
Speaker 1: started a protest. They would have started a boycott. They
Speaker 1: would have started Occupy Wall St. They would have been
Speaker 1: so righteously offended over what they were seeing. They would
Speaker 1: have tried to shut down the market. They would have
Speaker 1: tried to force the hedge funds out of business. That's
Speaker 1: not what happened. Because they're not liberals. The Reddit guys,
Speaker 1: the average ordan or millennials. They may not think that
Speaker 1: their conservatives. They may not believe that they are political,
Speaker 1: they may not believe that they are not leftists, but
Speaker 1: they are classic free market conservatives. They understood that they
Speaker 1: had something the hedge fund guys couldn't match. They used
Speaker 1: a free enterprise market to go into competition with the
Speaker 1: head funds. Hedge funds had a better idea, and they
Speaker 1: decided to destroy what the hedge fund guys were trying
Speaker 1: to do. They were competing. They decided the Reddit raiders
Speaker 1: decided to compete against the people that they're supposed to
Speaker 1: bow down to. They decided to compete against them, and
Speaker 1: they ran rings around them and destroyed the original intention
Speaker 1: of the hedge fund guys. And that would not have happened.
Speaker 1: If these people are munch of progressive leftists, it's a
Speaker 1: good sign, folks. We had a caller, great question, why
Speaker 1: do these entrepreneurial tech guys like the facebooks, the Googles, Apple?
Speaker 1: Why you know, how in the hell can these people
Speaker 1: be leftists and be progressive? Folks. I have to tell
Speaker 1: you that they fashion themselves as elites, and they want
Speaker 1: to be elites, and they have learned. They can see
Speaker 1: you are not going to be an elite. You're not
Speaker 1: going to be acknowledged as an elite. You will not
Speaker 1: be thought of as an elite. If you are conservative,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be thought of as a disease. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be thought of as something that's terribly wrong. Uh. Look,
Speaker 1: there are a whole bunch of answers to uh to that,
Speaker 1: to that question, But I really do think that it
Speaker 1: all traces back to education. These people were all young,
Speaker 1: h and when they were young, they were propagandized rather
Speaker 1: than taught. They literally had Conservatism ripped to shreds, ridiculed, criticized,
Speaker 1: and individual conservatives Dittoh same thing. Who wants to be
Speaker 1: thought of as one of those? The fact that they
Speaker 1: are entrepreneurial and self reliant and self starters. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: folks look at them. You may think that, but they
Speaker 1: are able to do what they do and earn what
Speaker 1: they earned because the government is enabling the government is
Speaker 1: protecting them. You've heard about Rule to thirty. These people
Speaker 1: have been allowed to set themselves up where they are
Speaker 1: not liable for anything said on their platforms. You can't
Speaker 1: sue them for anything that's said on their platforms. That's
Speaker 1: such a big protective cloud that they are able to
Speaker 1: operate under and behind. But there are other things like that.
Speaker 1: This is why you know, I've I've I've tried to
Speaker 1: make comments all last year. How many times were these
Speaker 1: tech people dragged up to virtual hearings some Senate committee
Speaker 1: or some House committee was gonna get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of what they were doing. They're gonna bring them up
Speaker 1: there and they're gonna really face some hard questions and
Speaker 1: never gonna be read to Riot Act and they were
Speaker 1: gonna be told and they better shape up or else,
Speaker 1: and nothing ever happens. And why, I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: they've got so much to offer. They got campaign contributions
Speaker 1: to offer. But more importantly, let's say that you are
Speaker 1: Congressman fog Horn blue Hoorn from pick your favorite state,
Speaker 1: and the guy that runs Google, the guy that runs
Speaker 1: Facebook can assure you that when anybody puts your name
Speaker 1: fog Horn Bluehorn into the search window, that nothing but
Speaker 1: positive stories are going to come back. What would that
Speaker 1: be worth to you? Might it be worth looking the
Speaker 1: other way at what the tech guys are doing when
Speaker 1: they're censoring conservatives, when they are literally preventing the viewpoint
Speaker 1: of over half of the people in this country from
Speaker 1: being mentioned, discussed, and promoted. I think you'd make that
Speaker 1: deal if you're fog Horn blue Horn and you promised
Speaker 1: positive search results and maybe a campaign donation here and there.
Speaker 1: That's all it would take. These people are so big,
Speaker 1: they're so powerful. Plus what can they offer fog Horn
Speaker 1: Bluehorn when his legislative career is over. When Congressman fog
Speaker 1: Horn Bluehorn decides that it's over and he wants to
Speaker 1: go into the private sector, why guess what. There could
Speaker 1: be a big position open at Facebook or Google in
Speaker 1: their legal department. And he doesn't have to do any work.
Speaker 1: He's got a no show gig. He's a rainmaker. Fog
Speaker 1: Horn Bluehorn now part of the legal community at Google Mambo.
Speaker 1: He's supposed to generate business that he might and so
Speaker 1: fog Horn Blue Hoorn, who makes a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: grand as a congressman, leaves Congress, ends up a millionaire.
Speaker 1: And all he had to do was look the other
Speaker 1: way when conservatism was being slimed. That's all he had
Speaker 1: to do.