David Rubenstein: belief

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…No, call it what you want, but I don’t know that they are liberal anymore. Well, also, you have to remember the Ivy League schools often are the ones seen as being too liberal or left-wing. They are a tiny part of the country’s education system. If you go to Kansas State University or Oklahoma State University or the equivalent in the Midwest, I’m not sure the students are quite as left-leaning as you might think. On the whole, remember, the country’s kind of split down the middle politically, left and right, and, I suspect, college populations. Throughout the course of history, college students have probably been slightly more liberal than they are when they’re in their 50s or 60s. This is the normal course of life. People tend to be a little bit more liberal when they’re younger than when they’re older. When you interview someone, how do you prepare for that? What do you do?…

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