The thing is with that is that as humans we can learn from others mistakes without having to repeat them.
“Bud” was called out and was “losing to boycott” when Molson Coors and Harley announced their rainbow affiliation nonsense. Despite seeing those companies get hit then Pantene, Gillette, Citi, and Adidas stepped into the pro fruit fight.
Either all these companies need to fire their entire executive staff or these companies did this intentionally.
They havent been fired. This means its not accidental which is what makes people point to blackrock, DEI, etc.
That means it was intentional and for investors, not consumers.
Consumers, X and Z are overall irrelevant. Numbers wise, the regular people of a large enough number and enough invested to be of any importance with investments are Boomers and then soon to be the Millennials.
Having said that, I dont think that the common investor saving a bit for retirement so much as those big enough to invest enough in the interests that control places like Blackrock are the investors of note.
Discussing anything beyond that as to who that actually is only tends to result in name calling and threads being pulled.
Not necessarily. I think you may have overlooked how detached from understanding the country as a whole people who live in liberal bubbles can be. In many places where corporate offices are like New York, or Los Angeles, the upper class people that the corporate managers work and socialize with may be 90% Democrat liberals. They accept whatever the latest liberal fad is and just play along, because that's what their friends expect, that's what the other moms at the private school expect, and thinking differently will get you ostracized at the country club.
The same is true with many college faculty and administrators. The concept that anybody doesn't agree with their politics, except for those "deplorables" is just unthinkable to them.
In that kind of bubble blunders get baked like cookies in an oven at Pepperidge Farm.