Posted on 04/13/2021 5:51:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
The modern democracy desired by Saturday’s participants is one our corporate and ivory tower overlords control, rather than the peons in red states.
On Saturday, 100 big business leaders joined a Zoom call to plot a unified response to voting-integrity legislation pending in many states, similar to a law recently passed in Georgia. While billed as “non-partisan” efforts to defend voting rights and democracy, the players involved, their preferred policies, and the undemocratic pressure they seek to exert proves the virtual gathering was nothing of the sort.
CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe first confirmed the existence of the call on Saturday, identifying American Airlines, United, the Atlanta Falcons, Levi Strauss, Walmart, Viacom CBS, Twitter, LinkedIn, and AMC Theatres as participants. O’Keefe identified Yale Professor Jeff Sonnenfeld as helping organize “the confab.” Later, on its webpage, The Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism disclosed that it had convened the meeting in partnership with Sonnenfeld’s Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute and the Leadership Now Project.
The Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism’s summary of the event quoted Sonnenfeld and other organizers, such as Daniella Ballou-Aares, CEO of the Leadership Now Project, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, chairwoman of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, and Meredith Sumpter, the CEO of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism. So, who are these organizations and their leaders?
The Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism’s 23-page “Framework for Inclusive Capitalism” provides some insight of its positions that, in short, seek to transfuse leftist politics into American capitalism. With “valuable input” from the AFL-CIO, SEIU, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and several academic institutions, and funding from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and others, the Coalition’s “Framework” focuses on everything from increasing the minimum wage to a “living wage” to changing state corporation laws and Securities and Exchange Commission regulations to alter corporations’ responsibility to shareholders, to instead inure to society and the environment. The Coalition also seeks to compensate executives, not based on stock performance but based on meeting “broader corporate goals,” particularly those that affect worker rewards and quality along race, ethnic, and gender lines.
Coalition chairwoman de Rothschild proves a solid booster for Democrats and the Democratic National Committee, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
While not as free-flowing with her money as de Rothschild, Sumpter’s political donations also find a home in the pockets of Democrats.
More troubling than The Leadership Now Project’s one-sided promotion of political candidates who seem in line with the partisan views of its leaders is the organization’s warped view of “protecting our democracy.” In an executive summary, the organization claims a “specific agenda” to tackle “systemic racism” and “repair American democracy” by limiting voter ID laws, granting felons the right to vote, addressing purported discrimination and underrepresentation by the Electoral College, and preventing states from cleaning up voter rolls. The organization’s website proclaims ranked-choice voting a priority.
The real tell, though, is from The Leadership Now Project’s claim to prioritizing “innovation and ideas for a modern democracy,” to which Saturday’s virtual gathering gave meaning: The modern democracy desired by Saturday’s participants is one our corporate and ivory tower overlords control, rather than the peons in Georgia or the other red states. If the voters don’t see things the same way, they will be made to.
That brings us back to fellow organizer Sonnenfeld, who claimed “the gathering was an enthusiastic voluntary statement of defiance against threats of reprisal for exercising their patriotic voices.” But two short weeks ago, it was Sonnenfeld levying threats to bring Georgia to heel, suggesting Google and Microsoft’s workforces reconsider recently announced regional offices in Atlanta in retaliation for the democratically elected state legislature’s passage of a mild voting integrity law.
So, it seems, the threats can only run one way: from the powerful boardrooms to the unwashed masses. Should the populace complain, they’ll be shown what real democracy means—unless we show them first by voting against policies that give these corporations outsized power.
This is my shocked face.
Until the Left is removed from virtually every echelon of the government, big business, TV/cable News, the Internet, major league and collegiate sports, etc., etc., nothing is going to change short of the majority of Americans just getting tired of the sh*t and wrecking them like no tomorrow.
That is for the same reason that almost everyone you know who votes democrat ALSO doesn’t oppose open borders.
hmmm....
It’s win at all costs with these people.
Cheat with fraud.
Open the borders and give amnesty.
Burn down cities and intimidate (otherwise called terrorism for anything else) the people
These people have no conscience.
Boy howdy is there a disconnect amid the outlook of most ‘conservatives’ when it comes to corporations and capitalism. This tweet is a great place to recognize the distinction between the objectives of multinational corporations and their hatred of capitalism.
First, they were not “corporations” on the call, that is not an accurate description. The assembly was a group of “multinationals” discussing their objectives, goals and outlooks on politics. There is a difference between an ordinary corporation and a multinational corporation. Multinationals hate capitalism.
When I say most multinational corporations hate capitalism many people look confused.
Let me help by sharing a short video that explains why:
Top Three Common Myths of Capitalism | Learn Liberty
The first myth busted in that video explains why corporations do not like capitalism. That’s why Big Tech is also against capitalism.
Multinationals want control; some call that corporatism…. but the names are moot. Multinationals want control, and capitalism does not allow them control; that is why multinationals do not want capitalism. Multinationals use lobbyists to generate regulations that stall competition.
Multinationals do not want competition; they are, by nature of their interest, anti-capitalists.
This misunderstanding is everywhere.
"Lost its way", good grief @mercedesschlapp
you could not be more wrong. The U.S. CoC has been a multinational advance group since 1984, representing the interests of Wall Street & working on a globalist agenda. They *NEVER DID* represent the American Worker. And YOU know THAT!
Mercedes Schlapp
@mercedesschlapp
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has lost its way and has forgotten who they represent: The American worker.
The multinationals were petrified of two words that underpinned President Trump's agenda: "America First"
Those two words were kryptonite to the agenda of Wall Street's multinational corporations. With trillions at stake, everyone & everything was activated to destroy Trump.
Sounds like a good reason to have a stock dump.
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Mussolini
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