https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzNvBsLBEdw
Conservatives for too long have interpreted being in favor of free markets as also being in favor of large corporations. The current funding of Black Lives Matters by most large corporations should, one would hope, shatter that illusion. The people who run large corporations are culturally of the Left almost entirely, and are increasingly backing Leftist movements, no matter how crazed their economic beliefs are. This has been going on for a very long time, and conservatives should assume that large corporations are enemies and act accordingly. We could start by allowing bills that attack large corporations proposed by Leftists to pass in Congress and legislatures. Hey corporate CEO, you want to back the Democrat party because of its open season on the unborn and Gay Uber Alles? Their deranged economics are part of the package. Why should conservatives expend any political capital to protect you from the madness you helped elect? Our best supporters are small businesses. Them we will go to war for. You big Corporations can fend for yourselves with your socialist allies. Good luck!
People who own shares in a corporation or work for one are perfectly free to donate to causes with their own money. The executives at these corporations have elected to donate their stockholders money to causes extraneous to the corporation’s institutional purpose. All sorts of corporate philanthropy is a dubious business.
Woke corporatism needs to be forced to drink from the full progressive firehose. Crank up the corporate tax rates to expropriation levels.
Time for them to enjoy the full spectrum of what they profess on the cheap.
Precisely Dale! Amazon’s sweet heart relationship with the Post Office would be a good place to start.
Woke corporatism needs to be forced to drink from the full progressive firehose. Crank up the corporate tax rates to expropriation levels.
You’re punishing various stakeholders with that, not the executives responsible for these travesties. A better solution would be amendments to corporation law which make the executives’ lives less pleasant. (And, yes, eliminate subsidies. As many as you can identify).
“A horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me: the suspicion that Gudge and Hudge are secretly in partnership…Gudge the plutocrat wants an anarchic industrialism; Hudge the idealist provides him with lyric praises of anarchy.” G. K. Chesterton, “What’s Wrong with the World”
I’ve been saying this for years. There is a wide gap between defending the principles of capitalism and defending corporations that may use their power to fight everything we hold dear.
I saw this from the inside for the last 20 years or so of my 30-plus years in the senior management ranks of a Fortune 20 corporation. It began as tribute, where top management would throw money (not theirs, of course, as Art noted) at Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH and the Human Rights Campaign (Gayness, Inc) and other squeaky wheels at the merest hint of a threat to say bad things about the company. As the post-WW2 old guard began to retire and be replaced by Boomers, it was less and less a matter of being shaken down and more a matter of actually agreeing with the “activist NGO’s.” I was amazed at first, then appalled, and then I retired.
I had several conversations over the last few years of my career with colleagues from deep blue states, in which I tried to extract some kind of rational explanation for their political support of candidates who viscerally hated our company and others like it, and acted accordingly when in office. I never got one.
In the other thread, Rudolph Harrier wrote:
To which, I would like to suggest, the second group is the same as the first group. The corporations pay theorists to equate corporate crony capitalism with free markets.
And businesses have never supported conservatives. Business supports the status quo.
Agree. Large corporations only serve mammon. They care nothing about God, Country or people in general. Politically they play both sides of the street. We need much stronger anti-trust laws. As things now stand big corporations run the world. It has been that way for a long time.
It’s all pretty simple, really, and we’ve seen it before. This is Fascism in its purest form, emerging again, and it comes out of the same gray, vapid malaise that it has in the past.
The structures of Church, family and civil society went flaccid over the last two generations; any order or structure once sustained has seeped away and this is never accidental. So, here it comes again. When moral fortitude is chucked, the only two edifices that seem to make sense are Money and Power; corporate ubiquity with all its material trappings, and the strength of force that comes from assuming authority, especially when the existing “authorities” do nothing to prohibit their own usurpation.
The Blackshirts are forming and soon it won’t be amorphous protests. It’ll be organized, uniformed marches and that’s when we either stand or fall.
Comment of the week WK! Take ‘er away Sam!
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The Antifa are already wearing a uniform. Idiots like Biden and Mrs. Biden wear black masks. I’m suspect of anyone who wears a black mask – do they knowingly wear black ones to support the Left and anarchists? Or wear basic black to be cool, in fashion? Which is subliminally a nod to the Left and anarchists. I include BLM with their Marxist founders as the Left.
The tangled nature of corporate law would require action in all 50 states and at the federal level. Plus, you’d never get the Bolshie left on board.
But you can get them on board with punitive taxation and, to a lesser degree, subsidy elimination. Time to make corporations see the progressive future is coming for their earnings and income.