Why America's Oligarchs Are Moving Left

Mises Institute ^ | 06/12/2021 | José Niño

[Bloodandgravy]

These days it’s not your typical latte-sipping millennials who are going woke. Taking a stroll around America’s largest metro areas will have one believe social justice is the latest fad that’s sweeping across corporate boardrooms. Much has been written about woke capital—businesses’ recent pivot to signal their affinity for leftist movements—and what it means for society at large. Suffice it to say that since last year, this trend has accelerated at breakneck speeds.

Scratching one’s head in utter confusion should be a natural response to corporate America’s virtue signaling. One has to wonder why big business, which has traditionally been perceived as a reactionary institution aligned with the political right, would make common cause with radicals on the cultural left. Counterintuitive as it may seem, corporations and prominent business moguls have many incentives to jump on the virtue-signaling bandwagon.

[joethedrummer]

Moving left means more for government- at the expense of citizens...

More power; more money... what’s NOT to like if you’re a self-serving, power-hungry sociopath?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We are living under true fascism, where it is impossible to tell where government ends and multinational corporations begin.

[PIF]

Fascists are socialists and “the goal of socialism is communism” - VI Lenin

[Albion Wilde]

Because none of them fit Adams' description:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
—John Adams

[vpintheak]

I agree with you 100%!

[Zionist Conspirator]

My personal theory is that it is the traditional elite that has spearheaded the revolution using street revolutionaries to absorb all the hatred and criticism. Our elite Left is made up of the descendants of people who voted for William McKinley.

There is no more traditional power base in America than the mainline Protestant churches. Look at them now. They weren't infiltrated by left wing West Virginia coal miners. Their elite membership did this themselves.

When one considers that the American Revolution was supported by all the politically correct European radical intellectuals and that the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist, one sees just how deep the rot goes.

Folks, radical Eastern European immigrants didn't do this.