So we know that republicans rly didnt like how all the corporations started to speak out against their voting restrictions esp coca cola and the mlb. They framed it as "corporate wokeness" and that corporations should not be a vehicle for far left mobs to hijack the constitutional order. So far things have quieted down and republicans are pretty much doing what they want unabated. Do you think tho going forward this might result in republicans rupturing their close ties with big business and perhaps propose implementing stuff like raising taxes and maybe even a public option?? Curious what you think.
my whole life they have always played culture war issues as a substitute for material policy and I see no reason for that to change
It should, but it won't. It's an attempt to fully convert leftypol people. When Marco Fucking Rubio whines about "woke capitalism" he obviously only takes issue with the woke part
They won't. They never have and never will. They'll performatively whine and moan about the far left communist corporations like Coca-Cola(?) and Amazon(??), but they know that they can't do it as they are still beholden to the power of capital, and they can very easily sidestep the issue by saying it's not the small government you can drown in a bathtub's job to interfere in the free market of ideas. Everything is an individual choice when it comes to consumption, so they conveniently can bleat about communists running twitter and Google while doing nothing about it
Massive corporations don't actually care about these issues, they're just sticking a finger in the wind and gauging public sentiment. Republicans aren't offering anything that would impede corporations from doing what they want. The proposal seems to be you just scream about wokeness and Cultural Marxism and that has basically no impact other than whipping up even more frothing delusion among their voting block. Republicans are also sticking a finger in the wind, but their revenue stream is different.
Examine how Republican media figures and their adherents have attempted to perform boycotts over the past twenty years and think about how much that damages corporate revenue streams. Buying Keurig machines just to break them, buying Nike shoes just to rip the logo off. Even back in like 2003 they were buying French wine just to pour it down the drain.
All of it's performative. Nothing Republicans do is an actual threat for corporate power and their policies still encourage wealth to flow upwards to everyone who already has a private jet.
