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