WEBVTT - All the Tech Entrepreneurs Are Liberals for a Reason 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.840 Here's Jeff and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Welcome sir. Great to have 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:08.280 you here with us high Megandetto's Rush listener since two thousands. 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.119 I wanna ask what your opinion is on why the 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:16.160 tech industry is left leaning. Um. I'm a tech industry person. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.239 I've been here working in this industry for thirty years. Um, 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:23.000 it's very entrepreneurial. There are no unions. I'm curious as 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.239 to why it leans left when it seems to me 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.040 it should be leaning right. You know, this is a 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.680 question that I have been asking myself my my whole life, 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.199 because I have been under the impression that all of 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:43.880 these people self made, UM, very wealthy, are natural born conservatives. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:52.320 But they obviously despise conservatism, and they despise conservatives conservative people. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.080 I despise them. I have to think a large part 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.360 of this is the education system they've grown up under. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:02.320 They've been lied to about conservatives, them in conservatives. Uh, 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:07.560 they believe that conservatives are racists. They believe it, Jeff. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.640 I mean it's it's it's not that they think it, 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.520 and they believe it to their core. They believe that 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:19.000 we're biggots. They believe that we're homophones. They believe all 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:25.639 of these character assassination charges, and they can't they can't 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.720 stomach being thought of that way. You can almost chalk 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.360 it up to marketing and branding that the left has 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:39.960 done a great job of rebranding or misbranding Republicans and Conservatives. 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:46.760 But there are also other reasons for this, and it's 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.040 nothing more complicated than they survey the land and they 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:56.920 see that the real power brokers in politics, people they 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:05.920 identify with power brokers are the Democrats, and so they 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:11.760 naturally align with with with that group. But I've even 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.960 these two answers I've given you are not solely satisfactory 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:23.239 to me. Um. I look at at this question constantly 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.200 because it's one of the greatest bug a booze that 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.639 I encounter on a daily basis, because we're not anything 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.240 like we are accused of being, and yet the number 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.800 of people who think all those things they say about 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.080 us are true would shock you. But it takes me 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.120 to one more just concluding thought, I want to use 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.519 your question to illustrate what happened here with game Stop, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.880 and let's look at it. If the reddit raids, if 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:55.320 the guys on Reddit who were considered the normal ish people, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.520 not nearly bright enough to do anything on their own 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.919 that makes sense. They're not bright enough to even deal 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.960 with the hedge fund guys. If they had been a 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:09.919 bunch of leftists, if they had been a bunch of progressives, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.480 what would they have done after discovering what had happened 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.480 when they discovered that the hedge funds were short selling. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.000 We're trying to destroy the value of a company they 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.800 didn't even own. They were just trying to wipe it 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.760 out to make big money in the process. What would 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.360 they have done If they were leftists? They would have 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.120 started a protest. They would have started a boycott. They 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.360 would have started Occupy Wall St. They would have been 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.560 so righteously offended over what they were seeing. They would 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.280 have tried to shut down the market. They would have 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:45.360 tried to force the hedge funds out of business. That's 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.760 not what happened. Because they're not liberals. The Reddit guys, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.120 the average ordan or millennials. They may not think that 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:58.000 their conservatives. They may not believe that they are political, 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.920 they may not believe that they are not leftists, but 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:09.120 they are classic free market conservatives. They understood that they 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.160 had something the hedge fund guys couldn't match. They used 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.800 a free enterprise market to go into competition with the 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:20.279 head funds. Hedge funds had a better idea, and they 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.320 decided to destroy what the hedge fund guys were trying 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:30.680 to do. They were competing. They decided the Reddit raiders 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.680 decided to compete against the people that they're supposed to 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:40.200 bow down to. They decided to compete against them, and 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:46.440 they ran rings around them and destroyed the original intention 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.520 of the hedge fund guys. And that would not have happened. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.960 If these people are munch of progressive leftists, it's a 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.320 good sign, folks. We had a caller, great question, why 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:06.600 do these entrepreneurial tech guys like the facebooks, the Googles, Apple? 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.839 Why you know, how in the hell can these people 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:17.360 be leftists and be progressive? Folks. I have to tell 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:24.440 you that they fashion themselves as elites, and they want 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.919 to be elites, and they have learned. They can see 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.039 you are not going to be an elite. You're not 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.600 going to be acknowledged as an elite. You will not 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.640 be thought of as an elite. If you are conservative, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.960 you're gonna be thought of as a disease. You're gonna 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:49.320 be thought of as something that's terribly wrong. Uh. Look, 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.599 there are a whole bunch of answers to uh to that, 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.120 to that question, But I really do think that it 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.880 all traces back to education. These people were all young, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:09.719 h and when they were young, they were propagandized rather 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:18.200 than taught. They literally had Conservatism ripped to shreds, ridiculed, criticized, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:23.400 and individual conservatives Dittoh same thing. Who wants to be 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:30.120 thought of as one of those? The fact that they 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:36.880 are entrepreneurial and self reliant and self starters. Yeah, but 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.000 folks look at them. You may think that, but they 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.480 are able to do what they do and earn what 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.919 they earned because the government is enabling the government is 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.080 protecting them. You've heard about Rule to thirty. These people 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:58.320 have been allowed to set themselves up where they are 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:03.119 not liable for anything said on their platforms. You can't 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:09.400 sue them for anything that's said on their platforms. That's 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:14.920 such a big protective cloud that they are able to 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:19.600 operate under and behind. But there are other things like that. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.480 This is why you know, I've I've I've tried to 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:29.360 make comments all last year. How many times were these 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:34.440 tech people dragged up to virtual hearings some Senate committee 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.280 or some House committee was gonna get to the bottom 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.680 of what they were doing. They're gonna bring them up 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.000 there and they're gonna really face some hard questions and 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.280 never gonna be read to Riot Act and they were 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.960 gonna be told and they better shape up or else, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:54.400 and nothing ever happens. And why, I'll tell you why 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.760 they've got so much to offer. They got campaign contributions 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.920 to offer. But more importantly, let's say that you are 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:08.480 Congressman fog Horn blue Hoorn from pick your favorite state, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.200 and the guy that runs Google, the guy that runs 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:17.160 Facebook can assure you that when anybody puts your name 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:22.320 fog Horn Bluehorn into the search window, that nothing but 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.320 positive stories are going to come back. What would that 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:30.400 be worth to you? Might it be worth looking the 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.040 other way at what the tech guys are doing when 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:40.880 they're censoring conservatives, when they are literally preventing the viewpoint 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.560 of over half of the people in this country from 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:49.680 being mentioned, discussed, and promoted. I think you'd make that 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.160 deal if you're fog Horn blue Horn and you promised 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:57.200 positive search results and maybe a campaign donation here and there. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:02.199 That's all it would take. These people are so big, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:09.440 they're so powerful. Plus what can they offer fog Horn 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:14.560 Bluehorn when his legislative career is over. When Congressman fog 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.040 Horn Bluehorn decides that it's over and he wants to 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.640 go into the private sector, why guess what. There could 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.600 be a big position open at Facebook or Google in 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.600 their legal department. And he doesn't have to do any work. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.520 He's got a no show gig. He's a rainmaker. Fog 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.200 Horn Bluehorn now part of the legal community at Google Mambo. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:39.800 He's supposed to generate business that he might and so 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.440 fog Horn Blue Hoorn, who makes a hundred and fifty 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:48.400 grand as a congressman, leaves Congress, ends up a millionaire. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.440 And all he had to do was look the other 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.600 way when conservatism was being slimed. That's all he had 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:55.880 to do.