The Unseen Political Bias in Higher Education | Vince Dao DSH #837

I guess LA is very diverse to begin with.

It was never really a thing present in people's minds, of course, until race became so prevalent in society.

Do you think it was because of politics?

Everyone knows when it happened.

Whatever it is, just started to.

Something I think about the combination of Obama sometimes playing into the racial stuff a lot.

I think social media kind of in some ways amplifies a bunch of social factors, I guess, came together that, first of all, polarized our politics, and then secondly, created the woke progressive parade that we talk about today.

All right, guys, got Vince Dow here today, fellow Asian.

I know.

Let's go.

I don't have, I don't know what height genes you have, but I

don't have the Asian ones.

Nah, I'm half white.

Okay.

Yeah.

Well, I'm part white, too, but I know.

I'm Italian.

So I guess I got two short genes.

Yeah.

Like the short Italian short Asian.

I've never met an Italian Asian.

That's a rare mix.

Yeah, it is a rare mix.

That's super cool.

Long story that goes back to the the Vietnam War and a lot,

a lot of stuff.

That's awesome, Ireland.

Yeah, so I'm Irish, so we're close.

Okay.

Yeah, Ireland.

We're both Asian power.

Which side did you lean more towards growing up?

You know, I would say, like,

in the beginning, it was more the Asian side, but I don't know.

I never really live life.

like thinking about my race, if I was going to be totally honest.

I grew up in Southern California and up until about 2015, 2016, I don't know, we were still sort of living in that old school liberalism where race like genuinely didn't matter, or at least people acted like it didn't matter.

So I never really, for most of my life, honestly, it was like, yeah, I guess I'm Asian, I guess I'm white, but I'm American.

That's totally different than how I grew up.

People were racist to me growing up.

Really?

Where'd you grow up?

New Jersey.

New Jersey?

Okay.

I thought most Asians got bullied growing up, but that's interesting that you didn't.

Well, there was, I remember in kindergarten,

it was because I brought chopsticks to school.

Oh, that's badass in kindergarten?

Yeah.

That's cool.

And it's funny because my mom specifically told me, like, do not do that.

Like,

people are like, other kids are going to be like,

but I was like, I did it anyway.

And then, like, I think one kid said something to me, and I just...

was like, okay, I guess I'll just eat with a fork from now on.

Wow.

But that was about it, honestly.

My whole life.

And I don't even think for him it was a race thing, if I'm going to be honest.

It was just like, that's strange.

So like,

but yeah, I mean, I guess LA is very diverse to begin with.

So it was never really a thing present in people's minds, of course, until

race became so prevalent in society again, I guess.

Yeah, when did it become like that?

Do you think it was because of politics?

Yeah, I mean, a lot of people have their theories on what exactly happened, but everyone knows when it happened, right?

It's like the last few years of the Obama years is when we call it the woke.

Back then we call it SJWs, whatever it is, just started to

come out of the woodworks.

I mean, I'd argue like far-left radicals always existed in society, but something I think about the combination of Obama sometimes playing into the racial stuff a lot, social media, I think social media kind of in some ways amplifies the most insane views because they get the most engagement, and probably a little bit of a skew in the college campuses specifically.

Just kind of a bunch of social factors, I guess, came together that, first of all, polarized our politics.

And then secondly, created the woke progressive that we talk about today.

I never realized how liberal colleges were until Charlie Kirk.

Yeah.

I mean, I really had no idea because I went to Rutgers and looking back on it now, it was very liberal.

Yeah.

To be honest.

Really.

Did you have that experience too when you went to college?

Well, I'm actually just finishing up college right now.

Okay.

But, I mean, I go to the University of Florida.

So.

Not really.

Not really.

I mean, I'm in the business school.

And to me, it is actually very rare to run into a liberal.

But all my friends who are in humanities and political science, it's funny, we have like this different view of what the school is because they'll say, this school is so freaking liberal.

You know, they're surrounded.

And then in my classes, literally like it's rare to find someone where you immediately can identify that they're a liberal.

Most people are just non-political.

Most people are conservative, you know?

Yeah.

Well, you don't see many liberals in entrepreneurship other than Mark Cuban.

Yeah, and even him.

You know, something is off about that whole relationship.

Like, I don't know if they have something on him or he

has a certain favoritism.

Like he's trying to get something out of the Democrat Party or whatever it is.

But I don't know.

Something about that whole relationship is very insincere to me.

There's a bias there because he was defending Kamala on Fox News last night, saying she did a great job.

But I watched it and I would say I'm pretty objective.

Like even though I obviously lean towards the right, I thought she did terrible.

Yeah.

Like

I thought it was obvious.

And even the fact that like her team was trying to end the interview early, I mean, that's the greatest indication that you can possibly get out there.

Yeah, if it was going well, why would you end it early?

Yeah, but

Mark Cuban has basically just became a campaign surrogate for Kamala.

And it's just very strange.

Because on one hand, she's this progressive populist who's going to go after the billionaires.

And then that was like one month of her candidacy.

And then the next month, she's actually the capitalist who's going to be good for business.

And Mark Cuban's out there.

It's very incoherent.

It makes little sense.

Now, growing up in Cali, though, were you pretty liberal at first?

When I first,

I've been involved in politics since I was very young.

Like in seventh grade, I was interested in, because that was like 2015, 2016.

So when I first started out, I actually was a Bernie Sanders supporter.

But I was always,

I would like kind of akin myself to Tulsi Gabbard.

Like, I was always sort of an anti-establishment, also anti-woke, like kind of like pro-working class leftist, I guess, because

I remember back then, you know, Bernie Sanders on the social issues was not nearly as woke or as progressive as he is now.

But specifically that summer, you know, I was very, I don't know, for some reason, I liked Anonymous.

I liked Leaky Leaks.

Like, I was just very anti-establishment.

I guess it was like my edgy, like, I think a lot of people do that, right?

So when Hillary got the nomination, I was like full-blown

B and on, I guess we'll say.

Like, I believed like the election was stolen from Bernie, you know, and

I was sort of like neutral in the 2016 election, but I was kind of rooting for Trump to win because I would not support Hillary.

So I was one of, I guess you could say, those Democrats or leftists that didn't get behind Hillary in 2016.

And then when I got a little older, got into high school and stuff, I kind of just became more conservative over time.

Yeah.

I feel like the access to information got easier as we got older.

Now we could actually look at the real data.

Or before they did a great job of hiding it through traditional media.

Right.

Like it was really hard to find the truth 10, 15 years ago.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I don't know.

I think I always had an inclination that the current system was broken.

And I think in 2016, especially, Bernie Sanders was sort of the left-wing version of Trump.

Now, I kind of felt like he, I guess, sold out to the party.

And that's kind of the moment where he lost me originally.

Was, you know, after all the things that Bernie's supporters believed about Hillary and how she was a total pawn of the establishment and she was going to bring us into World War III, I remember when he got on that nomination stage at the DNC and didn't try to challenge or contest the convention.

For me, I was like, I felt very betrayed by that, you know, because I was like, oh, this guy isn't really the crazy anti-establishment warrior that we thought he was.

And I guess over time, yeah, I became disaffected with the left as a whole wow yeah I wonder what happened with him because I remember that 16 campaign it was everywhere yeah and he just folded as soon as Hillary got involved right yeah I mean because he's always been I guess a bit of a pushover you know same thing happened in 2020 with Joe Biden and I remember one of the criticisms of him even used to be that he was so soft in debating you know because he's a very talented speaker and all but like he would not really go on hardcore attacks against his opponents and it's like when you're running against two of the biggest establishment politicians of all time, Hillary and Joe Biden,

you know, you saw, you know, for Donald Trump how effective it was to go after Hillary to go after Jeb, you know, and Bernie, I think one of the big downfalls of his career and why he never got a nomination is because he really refused to do that.

You know, so absolutely.

Are you feeling good about this upcoming election?

I am.

I mean, always nervous until the end.

You know, in 2022, I was pretty confident and then that you saw it happen.

So we should definitely shouldn't get complacent.

But

the early voting numbers are looking very good for us in terms of the trends, like which counties have higher turnout, lower turnout.

That's in our favor.

The polls shouldn't trust them as a whole.

But the fact that the momentum is with Trump in the final weeks of the election, I think is a very good sign.

And clearly, the Kamala campaign is in a bit of a panic as it is because they are sunny.

She never did interviews before.

All of a sudden, they're trying to send her her to do every interview as you can you know totally changing up the strategy that to me suggests that they know they must see internal polls and probably the public ones too that show okay they're put in pretty big trouble 100 like why would she go on fox news that's like a really risky move right and they wouldn't be taking these risks if they didn't believe there was necessary right it's actually i think on their part a calculated risk because they know if we keep doing nothing then we're going to lose.

So we got to try.

It's like throwing the Hail Mary.

It's a low percentage play, but maybe something will happen.

Yeah, I think that strategy didn't work because Trump was going on so many shows that they were like,

we know about Trump.

What about Kamala?

Like, let's see her on shows.

So that kind of forced her to get on.

And it was just one of the big criticisms of her.

You know, it's like, she doesn't put herself out there.

And I think for a long time, honestly, Kamala has run a fundamentally arrogant campaign when you really look at it.

I don't need to do interviews.

They're not necessary.

I have the Democrat machine on my side.

No policies.

Even their convention was like, first of all, they did it in Chicago, which I understand it's in the Midwest, but still usually you do a convention in a swing state.

Yeah.

They didn't think they needed to, right?

The Palestine protesters, they think they're a non-factor.

They didn't really even appeal to the independents, I thought, that well at their convention.

So I think now suddenly they're realizing all of that, now that the honeymoon phase and that surge is over, all of their arrogance is catching up to them.

And now they're in a panic mode.

Yeah, I'm excited.

I mean, I'm worried about integrity still for sure.

Because last election, obviously, a lot came out after, and they don't really seem to be talking about how they're going to to stop it at all so that doesn't make me comfortable too big to rig yeah

so hopefully things are good though i'm in a swing state this year and i think we'll go right but we'll see i'm in nevada yeah looking forward right now polymarkets looking good causy 60 right now yeah so we'll see what happens i think especially what your governor did in 2020

really destroyed uh the credibility of the democrat machine the read machine it's called right yeah and there was a guy i don't know if you saw this he went on patrick by david's show with one of the machines and he rigged it right he changed the the world on a podcast.

He showed how easy it was to hack into it.

Unbelievable.

I mean, it's that easy.

If a random hacker can do it, you don't think the government can do that?

No, absolutely.

Absolutely.

Like, it's so easy.

If you could tell Trump one thing, what would you tell him?

Or ask him?

One thing.

Tell him or ask him.

Either one, whatever's compelling you.

Hmm.

Two weeks until the election.

That's a...

We're going to send this to him.

I'm compiling everyone's answers.

Okay, then I would say,

you know, this is more to your team as well, but you know, chase every vote.

Like, don't leave anything for granted on the table.

There's, frankly, millions of people in this country, believe it or not, who are still low-propensity voters.

And maybe they live in a small town in Wisconsin or something.

And they're not registered to vote, or they are registered to vote, but, you know, maybe they're not going to do it, whatever.

Make sure you're sending people to these areas to like, you know, give them a helping hand.

Like, not obviously not doing anything illegal, but like, hey, are you registered to vote?

Are you going to vote?

Blah, blah, blah.

Because I think all the little things that Kamala largely ignores, by the way, are going to make the difference.

So, chase every vote for sure.

Absolutely.

Thanks for coming on, Vince.

That was fun.

Appreciate it.

Yep.

Appreciate it.