I can remember a time when conservatives applauded people who accumulated wealth through smart business moves and companies that performed well by providing products in demand. Profits and accumulation of wealth were seen as measures of success. Getting there was something to aspire to through hard work and being smarter than the next guy.
More recently, I see a lot of the “We are the 99%” style rhetoric even here. Lots of “Eat the rich!” Anyone with money is demonized. Any company making money is evil and must be destroyed. Money bad. Success bad.
Seems backwards and wrong to my old brain. Don’t know how you encourage people to work hard while teaching them they’re to be punished if that hard work pays off.
Blackrock was put in charge of managing all the covid triggered bond buying and bailouts, they control $6.5 trillion in assets, and under ESG, if you’re not woke, no money for you. Good ole American capitalism is being destroyed with Fed backed debt instruments run by a private corporation, no issue here with some pushback against this.
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We aren’t against hard work and making money. We are against corporate power that uses the government to rig the game against the American worker. That creates rules and regulations that favor those that are connected, and punish smaller competitors trying to work hard to get ahead.
In short, we are under a type of corporate fascism at present, which isn’t about hard work and legitimate accumulation of wealth. It is about using the levers of global governments to centralize power and wealth.