 A new poll says that 7 out of 10 Asian Americans believe the United States is headed in the wrong direction. Let's talk about if that's high or low and also why. We moved here because America was the greatest video game map I've ever seen in my whole life. But then lately, there seemed like there's so much bugs in the program and nobody is there to do the firmware update. They don't want to do the firmware update. What's going on? Andrew, some troubling studies just came out. 7 out of 10 APIs believe the US is headed in the wrong direction and only 1 out of 10 believe that democracy is working extremely or very well according to a new poll from AAPI data. What are we talking about right now, man? We're talking about something very big picture, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think what we want to delve into, first of all, because a lot of Americans feel like America is in the wrong direction and a lot of Americans are losing trust in democracy of what we know as democracy and also losing trust in like news and information and misinformation. Just all systems, man. But we got to talk about the Asians, right? Because the Asians, maybe their reasoning is different or Asians oftentimes as a group in generalities have different values or have a certain set of values. So I guess we're going to talk about that. So yeah, please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the Hop Hop Boys. But one thing that everybody can agree on that is headed in the right direction is Smala Sauce, our very own chili oil. And of all groups in America, Asians have the lowest voting rate. I think that generally I'm not saying there aren't some legacy people in there, but I feel like they're less likely to be tied to something their grandfather or their great grandfather taught them, right? Because typically religions, political affiliations, they are handed down through just like what your family programs you did like. Okay. So Asians tend to be very moderate, right? Like that. Moderate, not moderate, not moderate, right? I'm just saying like moderate people. Right. Anyway, let's just get into what the article says. Somebody says, of AAPIs, half say they disapprove of President Joe Biden. So literally, you got the half, half 50, 50 split there. What's surprising about that, Andrew? More lean toward the Democratic Party than the Republicans. However, it shows that Asian Americans are more likely to trust Democrats over Republicans to handle issues such as the spread of information, election administration, student debt and climate change, but more likely to trust Republicans on handling the economy and split on which one is better suited to handle immigration. Yo, that is so interesting. They trust Republicans more when it comes to the economy and they're 50-50 on how they handle immigration, but they want Democrats to handle student debt, climate change, and election administration. So basically, they're just picking like the pros and cons of like comparing two players, right? They're like, Oh yeah, Jordan or LeBron. Well, LeBron's better at passing, but Jordan more. Well, let me tell you this. Asian Americans generally really hate crime. So if you're being indicted or being convicted or charged for some type of crime, like election fraud, Asians really don't like that and they don't like criminals. That's one thing Asians really don't like. Oh my gosh. They really don't like people who go to jail, man. Right. Right. And Asians actually have unbelievably low crime statistics in America in terms of violent crime. But yeah, I do think that they agree with the general electorate, Andrew, that right now America is faced with a uniquely horrible choice. This is actually the title of a really viral article and this is a national poll. Yeah. I mean, basically, if it comes up to be Biden and Trump again, rematch in 2024, a lot of people are going to just be out. They're just like, Yo, I don't even want to think about this election. I don't care. Nobody's happy, right? The majority of people are not happy. Yeah. I mean, for me, I would say when Asians kind of feel like that America is set in the wrong direction, I think what it is is I don't think it's necessarily fully democratic values or Republican values because I don't think a lot of Asians actually strongly identify with those two labels. I just think Asians, most Asians have a set of values that they care about, the top three, four things that they care about, and they feel kind of moderate about that. So like, you know, a lot of people would say like generally a lot of Asians have like conservative, like moral values, but they also do not feel super emotional about them either. Right. You know what I mean? Like they're just like, yeah, I've like that. I've like, okay, this identity politics, cool, whatever, but just give me safety in the economy. It kind of goes to like Ronnie Chang's first special, he's like Asians just want things to work. They don't care about all this other stuff that it seems like other people care about. It's not that they don't care in the sense that they hate any of it. I literally think Asians are like, okay, this is not my priority. So whatever works, but my priority is safety, education, and economy. Give me that. And then everything else is like, I just don't feel strongly about. Right, right, right. The article goes on to say Cassie Villicent, I believe a Filipino, she says, she believes the country has gotten worse in recent years, but it doesn't necessarily mean it was all Joe Biden's fault. I think that it was already going downhill prior to his election. Yeah, I think that's true. Yeah, like agreeing that things are going downhill, but the blame game pie distribution is different. Right, right. And I think a lot of people want to blame each president. Let's be honest. Every president is only in there for four years. So really, I mean, four years is like, they're really only being a president for three years. So really they have three years to make an impact. So it couldn't possibly be all of Joe Biden's fault, right? Even if you go two terms, you're like only effective for like six or five. Joe Biden is just one man that stepped in there. There was a whole system at work that was already going. So it is true that whatever the upcoming president will adopt and inherit also was a big deal, whether that's Trump inherited stuff or Biden inherited stuff. It's really not just the president. Let's be honest. So the article also goes on to say, Andrew, that whether an Asian is like maybe more Democrat or Republican, they're still able to point out the problems with their own party. So, so even when they are, they're like not the most fervent extremists. Like we said, whether they're left or right, they tend to be moderate left or moderate right, where they're still able to self reflect and be like, yeah, my party's messing up too. Right, right. Because this guy was a Republican, but Joe still said that misinformation is a major problem for both parties. Right, right. So it kind of goes to show you, I mean, Andrew, what are your quick thoughts on this article? I mean, I just feel like any, obviously, nobody's happy, right? That's a national poll. That's an internal AAPI granular, like a statistical thing. I just feel like right now, in my opinion, there's a lot of uncalibrated pendulum swinging for, for example, from police over profiling to zero policing. What a, what a horrible pendulum swing because that's over here bad swings over here, also bad, right? So I just feel like a lot of people are questioning the internal watch mechanisms and sort of like the way things are supposed to read and react to things. You know what I mean? But I mean, I guess to your point, Andrew, but do just a lot of countries have problems or? I think, I mean, I think every country has problems and I think everybody's problems are kind of like put out there on the internet, on the worldwide news. You say more than ever. Yeah, more than ever. More than ever, a citizen in America is aware of all the problems going across, going on around the world and we're getting our own information and our own perspective, whether it's, whether it's even true or not or sort of true, half true, exaggerated, downplayed, dismissed. Honestly, nobody knows. You don't know. You don't get the right information. To be honest, I hardly get the right information. Like, who knows? And this is, there's a stat that says 83% of Asian Americans believe that misinformation is a huge problem. 75% of the general Americans believe misinformation is a huge problem. So Asians kind of believe it just a little bit more. I think that Asians are, we know what it's like to be outside, but also feel culturally a little bit outside of the mainstream in America. Whereas other groups, they may feel more bought into entrenched in different sides, you know, whether it's historically or whatever, just emotionally. I think Asians are more, it plays into a stereotype, but I'm saying Asians are less emotional when it comes to political issues for sure. It just feels like whoever's driving America, Andrew, if America is a Gran Turismo F1 forza motorsport cruise in USA to put it plainly like car Andrew doesn't feel like everybody who was driving it when all the Asians were like trying to come in. I know that a lot of Asians are still trying to come. They were just driving it so good. There were still some hiccups. They were hitting the wall occasionally a little bit, but like they were generally driving it good. And now people feel like whoever's driving America, whatever forces are driving the car of America is just hitting the wall a lot more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? I mean, and also like you said, social media really amplifies the worst parts of society. Look at this chart, Andrew. Here are the actual causes of death in America. It goes heart disease, cancer, everything else less than 40%. Look at the news. The news reports everything else at like a 75% tier and heart disease is reported on 2% of the time. Heart disease, which is mostly caused by like sugar and like refined carbohydrates and not exercising and stuff causes 30% and it only receives 2% of the coverage. Yeah. Is it possibly because people advertising certain products Andrew during the news might be selling sugary products or carb refined carbohydrates? Wow, that's crazy that homicide actually is really low, but the news homicide makes the news. So there's actually a devil's advocate Andrew. I'm going to play that here where people say actually all the macro stats are saying right now is better than ever, but the news is worse than ever because theoretically medical tech and there's less war, even though wars are starting to flare up for the longest time, like there was like a 20, 30 year peace because obviously once we go back to World War two, that was in shambles shambles, the whole world. So anyway, guys, let's just get into the comment section. Somebody said people are just fed up with a two party system, man. We're in trouble no matter who wins this year. Nobody cares. Both sides don't care that everybody's just trying to get rich or they get co-op maybe they go in with good intentions and they become co-opted by the system. People like belief and corruption as an all time high. Right, right, right. Republicans will always put out profit and their own selfish agendas over the people. That is one thing that is always guaranteed. And I would say that you know, Republicans being so pro commerce that they're like greedy for their own coffers. That stereotype has been around for a hundred years. Andrew, I had to look it up. You know what's a democratic stereotype that has been around for over a hundred years that they're disorganized. Will Rogers Andrew said in the 1920s, I am not the member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. Wow. So Andrew, these stereotypes that they've been holding true for a hundred years, you know, when stereotypes last a long time and this goes for any stereotype out there that has kind of stood the test of time, you gotta ask yourself, why? Like why do I, why am I stereotypical? Why does that stereotype still exist? Are people just wrong and people have it in their hearts and they want these harmful stereotypes to be true or is there some reason for that? Right. I always felt like a two-party system sucked. And you know what is weird about a two-party system, Andrew? Is it just boils down to which side you were born onto, right? Like if the two parties have different ideologies, maybe your family is more, a pocketbook is more impacted by this ideology, your pocketbook or your emotional pocketbook nowadays is more impacted by one ideology or another. And then you just have to pick it. Somebody said, if you haven't figured out Democrats' agenda is to destroy the working middle class, turning them into the working poor while all the wealthy elites live in a different America. Interestingly enough, Andrew, both sides say this about the other side, that they're trying to destroy the middle class. Right. So who's right or wrong? Andrew, both sides are saying the other side's policy destroys the middle class. Right. Democrats are saying Republicans are destroying the middle class. Republicans are saying that Democrats are destroying the middle class. Maybe both sides are. Yeah. In their own different way, huh? Andrew, the only side guy that I saw question the corporatocracy in corporatocracy, I'll just pop up that definition right here, Andrew, was Bernie Sanders? Like Bernie Sanders was a true, I guess what, more like socialist, right? I had socialist ideas, I guess. Yeah. And then I guess on the right, Vivek Ramaswamy says that he is more of like questioning the whole entire system, but like he's from big pharma or was was pharmaceutical company himself, but he is very smart, too. I'm not saying I agree with him. Yeah. Ultimately, Andrew, what about the citizens? Do the citizens have to take some blame right now for basically like why everybody is unhappy with the direction? Because obviously if citizens comprise a democracy and there's this old adage, the citizens get the democracy that they deserve. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think people are not doing enough. I think people people got caught up in in a way like they got so selfish with like social media and just like maybe I don't know what you mean enjoying their own dopamine, enjoying their own that they got out of local politics. Trust me, you know, guys, local politics trickles up because you got to elect more local state officials. Those people end up becoming US senators. US senators have a lot to do with what happens in America. You mean saying that's a trickle up system? Yeah, like it does matter. Like if we don't vote for who we want locally, then almost our I feel like our leadership up at the top is never going to like represent us. Yeah. Ultimately, Andrew, we could get into this for hours. Like I said, some of these articles on the national polls, I was looking at 10,000, 12,000 internet comments on the Asian polls. There's still comments. I mean, less though, because obviously Asians are less political. Do you think Asians are more like detached from it? Because we're still more considered outsiders and maybe to the political systems of America, we are still more outsiders where like a lot of Asians are just like, man, I don't got my emotions put into this, but I just see what I see. Yeah, I do think that Asians are a little bit like, I don't know how to say it looks so pragmatic, like a Lee, I'm not saying all, but like my and we know a lot of people in our family, they really like Lee Kuan Yew a lot. Right. Like you Lee, you want to talk about a hardcore pragmatist that's not really like you couldn't really place them on a political spectrum. You know what I mean? Like in a Western American sense, at least I think you would have to like make the you mean and make it more of a heptagon and then chart each like geographic like shape on there. An ambivalent dictator and ruthless when he needed to be. All right. Well, that's like being an Asian parent to be honest. Anyway, guys, let us maybe Asian voters just want like a good Asian parent as the president. But then the kids would have to listen. You know, I can be the parent, but I raised you since you are zero years old. I know you're going to listen, but the American people that's a rowdy kid, even if I'm the father now, who will listen to me? Yeah, the kids are losing trust in the parents and the parents aren't any good. So anyways, you guys let us know in the comments down below, what do you think about all this seven out of 10 Asian Americans feel like the country is headed in the wrong direction? Should that number be higher? Should Asians know better or or are Asians overrating how bad the country is? Let me know in the comments down below. I think a lot of valid arguments on all sides. Let us know. We encourage the debate until next time. We're going to hop on boys. We out. Peace.