I was an American “conservative” in my youth, when we have a little more latitude to believe dumb ■■■■ that isn’t true.
Explain this realignment to me like I am a second-grader. You’ve been talking about it for years. You said it was happening when Trump won. You now say it’s happening when Trump and the GOP lost the House, Senate, and White House. Your realignment seems immune to external political realities.
You have told me few times over the years that you were once a Conservative.
As for realignment. Libs are no longer the party of working people. Libs no longer the party of free speech, Libs no longer the party of liberalism. Libs are no longer the party of liberty.
Libs now is the party of censorship. Libs are now the party of corporate goverment. Libs are now the party of fascism. Libs are now the party of interventionism…which they always were.
And finally libs are the party of mandates and thought control. That list can go on and on.
I posted this today, in another thread. It was also a reply to you.
And I am all for corporate America being help accountable for moving their manufacturing to China, and other low cost labor countries.
Tariffs do not work.
We need to tax the corps to a point, it is more profitable to bring the work back, or insist their over seas facilities change the labor and environmental practices.
Insists means, refuse to allow any imports if they do not play by the rules.
The US, just did that with a glove MFG in Malaysia. We need to do the same with China.
We also need to take away the tax havens corps and ultra wealthy use. They use and abuse the commons dramatically more than individuals, and do not pay for it.
They privatize the profits, and then socialize the external costs for the rest of us to pay for.
And many times, those profits are derived from initial research that was funded by the US.
Just look at Apple, Google, Tesla, Big pharma etc…They took technologies, that were funded by us…and they reap the profits. And then get laws changed, to enable them to not pay taxes, on those same profits.
I asked…“are you referring to companies like Google or Twitter moderating their platforms to meet their business practices/goals?”
Is this what you mean by corporate censorship?
If so…I do not see that as corporate censorship, any more than my posts here being moderated as being corporate censorship. I have a choice…if I do not like the way this forum is moderated, or how FB moderates their system…I simply do not log in.
I do think those large tech companies need to be broken up…as they wield to much power. But not due to censorship.