At Freedom First
Network, J B Shurk explores America’s “Descent into a Clown World.” Here’s
an extract:
Just as the beer companies, fake
conservative news networks, and so many iconic American companies before them,
the sports leagues have turned their backs on generations of loyal fans in a
display of repugnant pusillanimity. I wonder whether the Judases
will one day regret it. I know that the ESG- and DIE-pushing
communists are castrating corporate holdouts that resist the Woke Borg, but by
bending to the Borg’s will, these companies have destroyed any goodwill with
lifelong allies. When the Marxists come for another pound of flesh
from their corporate vassals — and another after that — those in charge will
eventually be forced to fight back or surrender. By that time,
though, nobody will be willing to come to their defense.
This has always been the
shortsighted corporate gamble of the Woke Wars — there’s never been a communist
revolution that did not devour itself. By yielding to those who have
always hated them and betraying those who have long defended them, companies
choosing to comply with woke orthodoxy are now entirely dependent on remaining
in the Marxists’ good graces. Yet grace is not something Marxists possess in any discernible
quantity.
It is not that politically
conservative and religious Americans have blindly defended corporate interests
in the past, but rather that liberty-loving, rights-protecting people tend to
mind their own business. Their first reaction to a company’s success
is not envy. They do not immediately turn their sights on how best
to confiscate another’s good fortune.
People who work hard for what they
own do not worry about what somebody else owns. They simply seek to
be left alone. . . .
One problem is that while communists are organized,
passionate, and good at messaging, conservatives “simply seek to be left alone”
– it’s just not an effective marketing message.
The full article is here.
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