One thing struck me during the shrill hysterical two-minutes hate debate over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law, the Big Corporations (Apple, General Electric, WalMart [No kidding, the left was cheering for WalMart!”) were siding with the left, and the left was saying “You people should be on the side of Big Corporations because they are looking out for your best interests.”
Big corporations like Walmart, Apple, Salesforce.com and General Electric and their executives have done the right thing by calling on officials in Indiana and Arkansas to reject “religious freedom” laws designed to give businesses and religious groups legal cover should they deny service to gay couples.
And then there are the “living wage” laws so beloved by the left that also happen to be supported by Big Corporations like WalMart
because they know it will drive mom and pop stores out of business; and that is exactly what is happening, and the left is okay with that.
Also, Big Corporations are siding with the left in their efforts to replace American workers with cheap foreign laborers who will vote overwhelmingly in favor of the social democrats.
Suddenly, the left is in bed with the huge corporations they claim to despise; and big business is throwing big squeezy bear hugs around the leftists who want to confiscate their profits and effect de facto nationalization of industry through regulation. Meanwhile, it’s the Conservative Right who are increasingly critical of corporatism and the power big business wields over Government.
When I look at how big business is lining up with the progressive left to create an electorate that will elect more socialists to power, I can’t help thinking about Khrushchev’s quote about the capitalist selling you the rope you will use to hang him with.’
Fun fact. Aetna made a big deal about recently making sure all their employees are making $16/hr.
How do they do that?
They hire contractors at less than that, with no benefits. Thus… they’re not ‘their employees.’
ACA : The biggest corporate subsidy in American history. Dumping tons of taxpayer dollars into the coffers of the lefty hated health insurance industry.
The left has no moral compass.
The Left doesn’t hate Big Business. It just hates big business that doesn’t donate to their campaigns. The rhetoric about businesses disenfranchising the people, about keeping business out of politics… It’s all a smokescreen to preoccupy the Leftist cannon fodder while Democrats keep taking corporate donations, draft laws that benefit their corporate donors, and laugh at the stupidity of the peasantry with their CEO buddies over glasses of chianti.
When has the left not been in the pocket of big business?
More relevantly, when has the left not claimed to be champions of the working class against Big Business?
“When has the left not been in the pocket of big business?”
In the MSM press.. In the Senate Chamber rhetoric. In the minds of low information voters. Remember, the left has a serious reality issue.
The left doesn’t hate big business, as long as they fire Americans and hire foreign, right Sean? The left loves big business and goverventment to protrect the party and politicians right Sean?
Funny you say Americans first while also saying shut up Americans we’ll shut you down.
Move to Cuba where one speech is allowed since that whats you want, it won’t be yours, but it will be one your way, one way.
I think that was Lenin, not Khrushchev……
Khruschev’s famous line was “We will bury You”. It was Lenin, I believe, who spoke about selling the rope with which we will be hanged. Nevertheless, this getting into bed by business with the government has a name: fascism. It and communism are opposite sides of the same coin. To the modern socialist, fascism can be a useful tool before the next power play. When all business becomes the business of government, then the corporations can be shown to be evil again and adios you CEO’s.