Monsanto… globalist worldview? Chase
Morgan… globalist worldview? Why did you includes NRA in your sample? Are they pro Democrat?
Gunfire and CRAZYNESS begins again in Minneapolis.
The warzone is prepping for more insanity.
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Only a matter of time until BLM are wearing the uniform instead.
No such thing as the free market. Someone is always making the rules.
Money has, and will probably always be a factor. What has happen in the last 50 years, with SCOTUS decisions, and the privatization of many government functions…has forced pols to beg for money the day after they get elected.
It is a system both parties hate. There are some in the Democratic party that wants to change that…we need more to get on board from both parties.
Then there are some that think regulations to reign in the money…is socialism. And many fall for it.
You mean the protests by BLM, and other civil rights activists that were mostly peaceful, until the cops showed up?
You get that conclusion if you weight a 5 person protest in idaho the same as a protest in Portland.
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The critics would have a lot more credibility if they were anywhere near Portland while they were criticizing. 
Once a company starts to employ lobbyists, they’ve crossed the line into crony capitalism. I wish free market people would use the term “free market” rather than capitalism, which was a pejorative term Marx or one of his ilk came up with.
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Big business goes where the money is, pure and simple. It used to be with the “family values” crowd, now it ain’t. That’s life, bro.
Well, first off, this isn’t fascism. Fascism is a far right ultra-nationalist philosophy that involves suppression of their opposition. Which surely would fall more in line with the GOP than the Democrats or the left.
It is a simple and easy to call anything you disagree with as being “fascist”, it has happened for decades but it just muddies its true definition and shows that the person uttering this has no clear idea what the word means. (Princess Bride meme can be inserted here)
Sort of the same way we often call someone a WWII era German political philosophy slander when we don’t agree with them.
That being said, what these businesses are doing, as always, is looking at the bottom line. Clearly there is a demographic shift occurring in this country, with Georgia and Arizona turning purple. The GOP has two choices, they can try and win new voters with policies that are appealing to a wider group of voters or they can simply make voting more difficult or less representative by means of culling, gerrymandering and suppression.
They have clearly chosen the latter in the past few months and appear to be involved in a concerted effort to tilt the field in their favor procedurally rather than via popular support and outreach.
This is clearly undemocratic and in my opinion, un-American. Cheating and gaming the system can seem like an easier path than doing the hard work, standing for something, being involved in policy and having clear goals and objectives that would offer an expansion of their voter base. But corporations do not have to and apparently won’t support such efforts with donations to a party that is eschewing them.
Those are tactics of a party that will ultimately fail, bereft of tangible philosophies or ideals and instead merely of holding onto power by any means necessary. All a corporation can do is not give these people money, and that is their right to do so.
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Nope. They are bowing to the pressure from the left. They are afraid of being called racist and the ramifications thereof.
The left organizes and threatens corporations.
Moderates post in political forums.
Guess who gets their way?
The right organizes and threaten’s corporations, why don’t they get their way?
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Your argument here is true if the spectrum is linear with two extremes. If the spectrum is circular or spherical, then what they are could well be in the region we could call fascist.
Mmmmm
your fantasies don’t count as a world that exists
did i say there was? i’m not a fan of where we are, we are just a small step away from fascist, and the left and their corporatist buddies are pushing us over the edge.
I’m not sure how you’d define this as fascism. Because business leverage their monetary power against politician’s money raising? Interesting.
I wouldn’t be too worried. Once the pendulum swings toward leftist policies and their taxes are raised, they’ll come back to the right, full force. This is a cost-benefit analysis, currently, as it always is.
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i’m not a fan of corporate interests taking leading roles in politics, for either side. was am and always will be a small business conservative. i don’t want ge writing regs, or exxon
This isn’t anything but corporations being run by people who are tuned to their own ecosystems.
