Posted on 12/10/2018 1:37:25 PM PST by huckfillary
A post at the Daily Wire asks the question, “Remember When The Left Hated Big Business?”
Of course the left loves big business now. They haven’t changed their minds about capitalism. The Democratic Party is now openly and explicitly socialist. It’s even going full Communist, with growing calls to abolish the Second Amendment and to ignore the First Amendment, and with laws against “hate speech”.
It’s not that they’ve changed their minds. But the left now controls most of big business. Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Google are hard left companies. They want socialism and even Communism for the rest of the country — just not for themselves. But that’s nothing new. Ayn Rand used the term “the aristocracy of pull” to describe life under a totalitarian, including Communist, regime. Under any dictatorship, those with connections to the rulers are excused from the irrational, unjust laws and rules to which everyone else must submit. They can label it “progressive”, but it’s nothing new.
Today’s left-wing, socialist-supporting, uncompromisingly Democratic corporations — Facebook, Twitter, Google, Starbucks, Netflix, all of them — can be utilized to attain the power, control and support that totalitarian-minded people on the left so crave. These companies are useful tools, or high-powered henchmen, who can help impose all the things leftists want to impose on the population, including but not limited to socialized medicine, government ownership of most private property and income, banishing gun ownership and outlawing “hate talk”, i.e. any talk leftists do not like.
The Daily Wire article [12-6-18] states:
Remember the days when the Left used to hate big business? Those days are long gone, with companies like Apple, Google and Facebook working in concert to further left-wing causes. Why did this happen? Andrew Klavan breaks it all down on Wednesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show.”
“The Left used to understand that corporations are power centers, and therefore prone to abuse their power,” said Klavan. “The Left used to be all about this! Not so long ago, remember, when the occupy movement was dumping litter all over the streets of America, they were sitting there going ‘the evil corporations!’ We used to laugh at them because they were on their iPhones, using Google and sending text messages. All these things they were using came from corporations.”
Despite the overwhelming dominance of leftist ideas in today’s culture, academia, media and big business world, certain objective facts cannot be altered. One fact is that you need money and property to advance whatever you wish to advance. You can’t outlaw property and profit if these things are required to generate the wealth to control people’s lives. So the next best thing — from a leftist point-of-view — is to mentally and morally beat the people who create the wealth into doing your bidding. And that’s precisely what the left has done. They have accomplished what no Marxist revolution aimed at taking over the government in America could have ever done: Taken over business and culture. The rest will follow.
Government and big business have largely become one in America. That’s all the left needs to guilt, prod and legislatively coerce all of us into doing what leftists and socialists feel entitled to force us to do. Yes, President Donald Trump has made that harder, for now, but the reality is still there, and what happens when there’s no longer a President Donald Trump? The issue is deeper than politics or government. It’s culture. They dominate education through public schools and have effectively outlawed non-leftist thought on most college campuses.
But business matters just as much, if not more, in America.
Leftists have figured out that in America, most people are defined by the corporate world which — through all it accomplishes in the pursuit of profit — justifiably dominates most of our lives. Without the achievements of big business, where would we all be? We’d be perishing or stagnating like in a third world country. Leftists and socialists have used the capitalist system they despise to turn corporate America and business enterprise against us. That’s their great strength. But there’s a lethal contradiction on the part of leftists too. They need the pursuit of profit and enterprise in order to attain and maintain the power they so crave. Donald Trump came out of the corporate world, and he’s no friend of leftism. He’s a reminder of their fatal contradiction and glaring weakness. It’s one reason they’re so enraged at the sight of him. He’s a reminder that they’re the ugliest hypocrites imaginable. In loving their material comforts and the fruits of for-profit progress, they contradict the moral smugness generated by a claimed hatred of these things. No contradiction like that is sustainable in an individual, nor in a movement.
Only a principled and unyielding defense for liberty, private property, unfettered capitalism and individual rights will save us from the leftists. But leftists are an absolutely intolerant and uncompromising bunch. They are ruthless and inhumane, more than most of us realize, and we will all find out if they ever attain the full power they want to have. They exploit any and all signs of weakness or contradiction they can find. In their evil and irrationality, they can be damn smart. That’s why they have won so many of the battles over the decades without fully winning the war. The ideological and political takeover of corporate America is their biggest victory yet. We’ll know they have won the war once the First and Second Amendments — the last men standing in the Bill of Rights — are gone. At that point, liberty-loving people are truly and fully underground, and it won’t be pretty.
Corporate America is on their side, it seems. That will have to change if we’re to survive as even a semi-free country.
Monopolies are easier to control.
It is essentially a protection racket, that has two main aspects. The first is the requirement to pay up, whether through corporate taxes or through pseudo-voluntary contributions to leftist causes. The second is the replacement of ethics with compliance, which makes being a corporate entity much easier: as long as the corporation complies with regulations (and keeps up with the aforementioned payments), it will not have its ethics questioned and it can run itself as it otherwise wishes to obtain enough profit for the staff.
There is an odd dynamic that comes into play about the way politicians speak. When a republican strays from his campaign rhetoric or starts to lean toward supporting a liberal issue like open immigration, his or her constituents turn against them.
When dems do the same thing it doesn't affect their support because their voters just assume they are lying to everyone else.
“The Democratic Party is now openly and explicitly socialist”
Since so many billionaires are now supporting the Democrats, they must realize when the Dems collect their dues to support their socialist programs they will only collect dues from the working class and not their billionaire buds.
It’s the same reason why the same leftists who hated the U.S. government when there was one or two intelligence agencies are now in love with a government that has 15-20 of them.
The left is in bed with the permanent bureaucracy and their cronies
Their social-engineering perversion also explains why they have become the biggest war-mongers there are.
Monopolies and oligopolies must be broken up If we the people are to have our liberties back again
They still hate business here in Wisconsin - our new leftist governor what to tax not only businesses out of the state but farmers as well. Their list of things to hate is expanding not shrinking.
This IS a Socialist country now.
WE let it happen.
Because most socialists are wealthy or come from wealth. That is not the way it used to be. Its what happens when you lower their taxes.
Government and big business have largely become one in America.
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The classic definition of fascism.
Corporatism and monopolism play into the leftist agenda. We do not have a free market, and they want it even less free.
The media conglomerates formed from Clinton era legislation (c.1996) started the accelerating end of any semblance of a free market. Deplatforming independent voices would complete their hold.
I agree! We let them steal so many seats without us raising holy hell!! They tested the waters and saw no pushback so now they are SOOOO emboldened NOTHING will stand in their way!! NOTHING!! I predict Trump will be impeached...we having seen NOTHING YET!! Brace yourselves cause the rats and the fake news will go on Trump like crazy animals with rabies!
Your words are so sad, but true.
Keep praying.
I think a better question is why do so many conservatives cheer on Levithan to wield power not found in the Constitution (unless you believe the Founders had Sherman in mind when they wrote the Commerce Clause), power the left will SURELY use against "our" large firms in due time, just because some voluntary IT platform removed their post?
The Founders didn't seek to bust up the East India Trade Co in their days. What makes you think they'd give a cheery two-thumbs up to breaking up FB?
The left fights to protect Twitter and Amazon's independence and the right tries to break them up. Next thing you know it, Ted Nugent will call for a ban on assault rifles and Dershowitz will call for a repeal of Roe. It's a mad, mad, mad world.
YUP
Just remember that it’s not all about Trump.
Big business want to make money and that is good. Big Business also understands the corruption in government. Thus it feeds at the trough of crony capitalism. Big business is corrupt due to the corruption of government. Oddly this corruption of government and business is both Republican and Democrat.
Oddly, Dwight Eisenhower warned us in his parting speech about the influence of the military industrial complex and its influence on congress. This influence today has corrupted all levels of government aside from the military industrial complex. Just look at what Google is today and all is clear.
BECAUSE “BIG BUSINESS” IS FINANCING THEM!
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