While you laugh, watch the interview with Nial Ferguson and you might learn a thing or two. I don't want to guess as to why reality escapes your conclusions. Are you going to say that places like Berkeley are balanced? Yes, that's an extreme example, of course. Academia, in this country, is decidedly on the left. The people they graduate are deeply influenced by this.

Here, let's use another metric to get a sense of the ideological leanings of our STEM graduates.

Source:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-...

Summary of employee political donations:

             Democrat Republican
    Netflix:    98%       2%
    Nvidia:     93%       7%
    Adobe:      93%       7%
    IBM:        90%      10%
    Salesforce: 89%      11%
    Google:     88%      12%
    Microsoft:  85%      15%
    Apple:      84%      16%
    PayPal:     84%      16%
    Cisco:      80%      20%
    Amazon:     77%      23%
    Facebook:   77%      23%
    Intel:      68%      32%
    Broadcom:   68%      32%
    Oracle:     67%      33%
    TI:         60%      40%
    Qualcomm:   50%      50%