I realize that the founders and top executives at Apple tend to lean to the left politically. Same can be said of most of our companies, including Microsoft, Starbucks and Google. I take pleasure in seeing them contort themselves to justify the billions of revenue dollars they are generating with their products and services. Bottom line is that they can talk a good game about how liberal and enlightened they are, so they get invited to the White House and go on cover of Rolling Stone, etc., but behind the scenes, it's cold, brutal capitalism that generates the dollars.
I think conservatives are making a mistake by writing off these companies. Instead, we should be looking to bring them into the conservative fold. We should not cede this ground to the liberals.
“I don’t see the same kind of vitriol on the Microsoft threads.”
Then you arent paying any attention.
“For some reason, many people go out of their way to bash Apple here because of some perceived notion that Apple is a “liberal” company. When in fact, Apple represents the kind of pure, unadulterated capitalism that conservatives should be proud to have in the USA. “
Basically pledging to use everything the company has to target Indiana for the religious freedom law? Cant even imagine where we got that idea that they are a leftist company....not at all. And you can’t hide behind the skirt of “capitalism” as if we on the right are so simple that that’s some sort of catnip to make everything else irrelevant.
“I realize that the founders and top executives at Apple tend to lean to the left politically. Same can be said of most of our companies, including Microsoft, Starbucks and Google.”
And when those companies target conservatives or engage in blatantly leftist activities, how many comments do you recall on FR defending their actions? Hell I screamed at MS for giving that stupid kid in Texas a bunch of free stuff after he brought that dumb clock to school. The type of “circle-the-wagons and make excuses” chorus for those companies simply does not exist on FR like it does for Apple.
“I think conservatives are making a mistake by writing off these companies. Instead, we should be looking to bring them into the conservative fold. We should not cede this ground to the liberals.”
Sadly that shipped sailed back in the 90s as the internet revolution was fueled by leftist in Seattle, San Fran and Silicon Alley in NYC.
For certain they are all about making money, but almost like China is.
You might as well call them “Watermelon corporations”. Green on the outside, but red on the inside. :^/