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| The GOP Needs to Understand That the Corporations Are Its Enemy |
| 2021-04-08 |
| It's Kurt Old habits die hard, and now it’s time for the GOP’s habitual support of big business to die, and to die hard. Look around — the corporations have decided it’s a great time to use their power against us. There used to be a kind of gentleman’s agreement — they stay out of our business and we stay out of theirs. But they broke that agreement. They decided to go all in. And it’s no coincidence that the political positions they have taken conform exactly to those of the Democrat Party. So, the hell with them. This change has been coming for a while. We need to understand the nature of the old Republican/big business relationship to see what happened. The companies were never with us culturally — they wanted fewer regs, lower taxes, open borders, and docile workers. They didn’t care about social issues. They stayed out of it. But a few decades ago, when those icky evangelicals and others who actually worshipped something besides the almighty dollar showed up, the corporate types got restless. After all, it made for awkward convos at the country club when you were allied with the Jesus gun people from out there in Americaland. So, today, they have intervened in favor of our enemies, but they expect us to sit back and pretend it’s 1987. Why did they go with the liberal establishment? Because that’s who the multinational bigwigs are, and always have been. It’s always about class, and the class these robber barons circulated within looks down on regular Americans. Hence the current virtue signaling, where you have airlines and shaving cream companies telling us we’re racist. It’s all about the execs making sure everyone knows whose side they are on, so the message to their brethren and sisteren and otherkin is, "Hey, we’re not like those people. Not at all." ...What, exactly, do we get out of the big companies? Donations? Take a look at the numbers, because those fat checks are heading left. Big business not only funds the Democrats. It funds their commie outside agitators, like BLM. Even the Chamber of Commerce went full on liberal last time, firing the last Republicans left on its staff. Oh, now the Chamber of Communism is making little whiny noises about the huge taxes the Democrats are planning. And big business is going to turn to us to once again help it stop the bloodbath. It needs to be greeted with a middle finger. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 "Corporations need to understand Trump supporters are the only thing standing between them and their wish for unrestricted rent seeking behavior, complete regulatory capture, and the end to scary upstart competition." FIFY Not to mention continued access to the glittery DC party circuit and attendant self-perceived dominating social status over you, the hoi polloi. So there is that, too. Get with the program, you irredeemable deplorable. |
| Posted by: Charlie44 2021-04-08 18:09 |
| #6 /\ Once inside the beltway, the masks come off. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-04-08 11:22 |
| #5 GOP aren't conservatives. They're just capitalists who destroy stuff - destroy American working class communities and destroy respect for culture and values. |
| Posted by: Sleash the Odorous1458 2021-04-08 10:53 |
| #4 Corporations need to understand the GOP is the only thing standing between them and horrific regulation and taxation. Perhaps the GOP should let a few Biden insanities go through unopposed so that the corporations stop taking them for granted. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-04-08 10:28 |
| #3 When did you notice the 'American' Chamber of Commerce was tickled to import tons of goods and cheap labor? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-04-08 08:27 |
| #2 Hillary used to rake in about 200G's for a 30-minute Kaffeeklatsch at Goldman Sachs. Nuff said. |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-04-08 07:51 |
| #1 Run by Harvard grads. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-04-08 07:31 |