The Left took over the corporations, and especially Big Tech, they essentially have every company now by the balls.
There’s no coercion; these companies are enthusiastically doing these things because they want to.
They think they can replace us with business with china.
Trump needs to hire a good public relations company.
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Pretty much the leftys never let an opportunity go to waste cause quite frankly they fear the man unlike anything I’ve ever seen in politics...they figure silencing dissent is the easiest way to have people conform
A lot of corporate Amerika has an office of diversity and inclusiveness. This is how they infect the company. Add to that “awards” used as public pressure points force companies to show how some they are.
This has been going on in various ways for awhile.
Coddle favor with your gov compadres who will dole out favors to you to cut out your competition.
This is why only big chains are open when small shops are shuttered from the disease bit - small fry don’t donate enough.
E.g., if a company like GE starts echoing eco policy that can’t get passed in congress, they get an assist by an incandescent lightbulb ban that allows their failing LED bulb business to take off like a rocket.
Amoral companies run by immoral people will equal immoral companies
FBI/DOJ/CIA aren’t moonlighting to do this - they are doing it in official roles. Just note the two tiered “justice” system.
removing small businesses makes the big corporations (amazon, walmart, GE, general mills) that much bigger when there is less competition...
it's just keeps getting uglier
It’s much simpler than any of this.
These companies have headquarters, for the most part, in large metro areas. The top of the executive chains are most certainly in the country club suburbs of metro areas.
The group think in these areas says that they have just defeated the nazis of the 21st century. They need to suppress that foe to make sure the nazis never rise again.
It’s their world view from the top down.
Lots of people in charge who grew up in front of a television...and had inattentive parents.
They know not what they do. They realize if 80 million people quit using them they will suffer. And if it’s 80 million voters, well those voters are adults that have families that will also not be using them. They are blinded by trying to get someone out of office that’s already leaving. Unless they know somethings coming or afraid it could be. Have you ever seen so many places piling on.
We'll show those Trumpers! We'll wreck our company and give them a chance to take over our customers! Ha, ha!
Reminds me of a story. A friend of mine saw a former student working at a car wash. He asked the kid if he graduated that year. The kid said, "No, I showed them. I quit 2 months before graduation!"
He’s a threat to their cash cow. It’s as simple as that.
I still go with the Boardroom Marxists Theory (Bill Ayers). These folks have plenty of money to hire lethally armed security to repel Antifa-BLM, and their Democrat political clients undoubtedly want some of that money to keep flowing into their campaign coffers. If the business is destroyed, the Dum Dum politicians lose that donation source.
So, yeah, it’s ideology. Don’t kid yourself. When you make yourself independently wealthy enough, you, too, can alienate large portions of your customer base.
Simple. Trump is a nationalist and all nationalists are a threat to globalism.
Follow the money works, every time.
These people are criminals. They work for themselves. Our government is a criminal enterprise.
Big corporations don’t get into open political warfare. Scoring woke points now and then ? Yes. But taking sides in such a divisive battle is a No No. Nothing to be gained and plenty to lose. I was surprised to see Marriott and Citi get into this. Do they not know 75 million people voted for Trump ? Likely much more. The only explanation like you said is threats. Retribution if they don’t obey.