August 19, 2021 • 9 mins
RUSH: Here’s Jeff in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Welcome, sir, president great to have you here with us. Hi.
CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. Listener since 2000.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I want to ask what your opinion is on why the tech industry is left leaning. I’m a tech industry person. I’ve been here working in this industry for 30 years. It’s very entrepreneurial. There are no unions. I’m curious as to why it leans left when it seems to me it should lean right.
RUSH: You know, this is a question that I have been asking myself my whole life because I have been under the impression that all of these people — self-made, very wealthy — are natural-born conservatives. But they obviously despise conservatism, and they despise conservatives, conservative people. They despise ’em.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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
(00:23):
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.
(00:45):
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.
(01:08):
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
(01:29):
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
(01:50):
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
(02:11):
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
(02:34):
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,
(02:55):
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.
(03:17):
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
(03:39):
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
(04:03):
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
(04:24):
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
(04:46):
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?
(05:07):
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
(05:28):
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,
(05:49):
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
(06:09):
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
(06:30):
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
(06:54):
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
(07:14):
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
(07:37):
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
(07:58):
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
(08:22):
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
(08:44):
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
(09:09):
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
(09:31):
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
(09:55):
to do.
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
(00:23):
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.
(00:45):
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.
(01:08):
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
(01:29):
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
(01:50):
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
(02:11):
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
(02:34):
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,
(02:55):
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.
(03:17):
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
(03:39):
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
(04:03):
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
(04:24):
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
(04:46):
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?
(05:07):
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
(05:28):
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,
(05:49):
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
(06:09):
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
(06:30):
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
(06:54):
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
(07:14):
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
(07:37):
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
(07:58):
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
(08:22):
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
(08:44):
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
(09:09):
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
(09:31):
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
(09:55):
to do.
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