Posted on 05/16/2023 9:30:34 PM PDT by Morgana
As conservatives rally around social issues, the Republican Party is clashing with corporate America. Will the fights break its longstanding alliance with big business?
At the home of Sarah Fields, a conservative activist and mum-of-three from Texas, some of America's biggest brands are no longer welcome. She cut out Disney first, turned off by children's shows featuring gay couples.
Her boycotts of Olay skin products and beers from Bud Light-maker Anheuser-Busch began more recently, after she learned they had worked with transgender social media star Dylan Mulvaney.
"My thing is protecting kids and the very first time I ever saw corporations pushing any kind of LGBTQ or any kind of trans ideology towards kids is when I really started to pay more attention," the 36-year-old says. "There are so many different ones [now], I can barely keep track."
Sarah became politically active during the pandemic, protesting against lockdowns.
Now a delegate to her state's Republican Party, she is one of the players pushing the party to rally around social issues such as gender identity and take on "woke" firms in corporate America.
Companies have been caught in the crossfire of America's culture wars before, as the country grows more polarised and firms face pressure from staff, customers and shareholders on the left and right to pick a side.
But legislative moves targeting firms mark a new frontier for Republicans, who have traditionally been allied with big business over matters like lower taxes and light regulation.
In Florida, state lawmakers voted to remove Disney's power over a district including Walt Disney World theme park, after it criticised a law that banned discussions of gender and sexuality in schools.
In Georgia, lawmakers threatened to remove a tax break from Delta Airlines, after its chief executive called changes to voting laws "unacceptable".
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A lot of corporations broke the alliance several years ago.
Miller is in this boat, too. And didja notice many articles came out during the Bud Light fiasco, saying that marketing with guys wearing dresses is here to stay?
The problem herein, is that after decades of losing, normal Americans see a chance of retrieving some normalcy. And the Other Side is scared.
Most Americans are live-and-let-live folks. People of different races and religions and sexual orientation don’t bother us. Some of them may be friends. Or not. But for a long time we went along believing, to quote James Baldwin, we can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
Somewhere along the line, we went from live and let live, from Tolerance, to You Shall Not Commit Mindcrime. And The Other Side was winning.
Something tells me, that the Other Side sees surrendering on Bud Light as a de facto Landing at Inchon, Normandy, or Midway.
If they fold on Bud Light, then MAYBE we will get back our Deplorable cultural swagger and get back to defending life, liberty and property.
This was no boating accident.
>>In Georgia
MLB took the 2021 All Star Game away from
Atlanta because of the GA voting
controversy
>>in protest of Georgia’s new restrictive voting law. The “Midsummer Classic” was set for July 13 at Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, in addition to other activities connected to the game, including the annual MLB Draft.
The Braves went on to win World Series
anyway and there was lots of booing
the commissioner
GA makes big money off TV shows filmed
there. There was a move to have
Hollywood pull out of the state after
a restrictive abortion law was passed.
So woke corporations were deciding
to punish the state for its politics
I have hated the Disney philisophy for 50+ years. Disney has appeared to be magically benign, but have always been diabolical, feeding the public small doses of twisted thoughts, turning millions away from the Lord.
Under attack... I believe we have the right of, "freedom of association". Yes.?
Preferring one product, place or person over another, for whatever reason, is hardly an attack.. It's called "freedom of choice"...
You are more correct than you know.
As soon as the miller thing came out, I knew what the strategy was.
Divide and conquer.
Dilute the issue to the point that the target is not defeated.
Do not be swayed by this new thing.
Stay the course.
We are taking flak.
We are over the target.
The author doesn't understand the American political landscape and political economy. Republicans like lower taxes, as does big business.
Big business likes regulations, since it hinders their smaller, more nimble competitors, while big businesses are able to weather the additional burdens of regulations.
Because like the BBC, they’re monsters.
It is just a matter of time before they push questions that Christians with a conscience will be unable to answer “satisfactorily” and they will have to make a decision: lie or lose my job as a form of persecution.
That happened years ago.
When I complete my company’s “diversity” training I skip to the quiz. The craziest answers are always the right ones.
“under attack”
More BS.
The woke act out, and we react.
In contrast to leftist causes which openly attack anyone who criticizes their narrative(s).
We have standards and reject businesses who embrace counter culture.
“Attack” is a pathetic defense for a war begun by the left.
But legislative moves targeting firms mark a new frontier for Republicans, who have traditionally been allied with big business over matters like lower taxes and light regulation.
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You can’t forfeit decades of tax money at all levels of government to eliminate private enterprise in favor of government-regulated businesses without enforcing woke policies which endanger children.
Stop the regulation and stop the taxation. Simple.
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