Culture wars strain once unshakeable bond between Republicans, corporate America

[AZProgressive]

In the past week alone, American Airlines and computer company Dell came out strongly against GOP-led bills that place restrictions on voting in their home base of Texas. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a rising star in Republican Party, continued to take heat for nixing a bill that would have imposed a ban on transgender athletes in sports, citing the potential impact on her state's bottom line. And conservatives spent days bashing "vaccine passports" some businesses think are needed to return to normal.

And then there was Georgia, where the Republican-controlled state House narrowly voted to end a tax break worth millions that Delta enjoys on jet fuel after the airline's CEO — along with the CEO of Coca-Cola, another major Atlanta-based business — condemned new voting restrictions in the state. (The GOP-led state Senate did not take up the measure.)On Friday,Major League Baseball pulled this year's All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest of that same law.


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This year has seen flashpoint after flashpoint. Weeks' worth of conservative outrage about the "cancellation" of Mr. Potato Head and Dr. Seuss were not about policies instituted by the government, but decisions made by toymaker Hasbro and the famed children's author's own company to address inclusion and racism, respectively. February's Conservative Political Action Conference — long a bastion of economic libertarianism — featured a panel decrying "The Awokening of Corporate America."

"Part of this is a development that has been going on for probably 10 or 15 years," David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth, said. "The old Reagan coalition — which included the Chamber of Commerce representing big and small businesses — since the tea party movement has really kind of been frayed."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/culture-wars-strain-once-unshakeable-bond-between-republicans-corporate-america-n1262797

[maxrandb]

1. Yes, Corporate America is having a hard time

They have to figure out how to continuously pump money to politicians to keep their tax cuts and the ability to pay their workers shit wages, while convincing us progues to buy products from companies that support politicians that want to murder us.

Their PR teams are working hard at messaging, but "strong statements" after the fact isn't fooling anyone.

Oh well, lie down with dogs....

[malaise]

6. Nicely put

The only good news is that it is all happening in public view so folks can see how it has been working.
Add to that the fact that ReTHUGs won't support infrastructure so the rich corporations don't have to pay higher taxes and then give them generous donations while wages are kept down, unions are destroyed and the regular folks have to deal with the run down airports, collapsing bridges, the roads and highways full of potholes, etc., etc.

Dems need to run ads exposing all this shit. This is the moment - Trickle down is history.
Down they go.

[JI7]

2. Demographic Changes are what is really forcing Corporations to reconsider this

[JT45242]

7. Pander to the 28 percent or the rest, simple math

Normally, you would say the counyry is evenly a third democrat, a third republican, and a third independent/apolitical. But as many educated and middle class folks flee the QOP, it is probably closer to 28 percent QOP now.

So, these companies have two choices, side with the 28 percent on policies that even among normally apolitical/independent folks see as reprehensible and unAmerican, or stand up against the policies that target the nonwhite population that will soon be the majority of consumers by both population and spending.

It's pretty simple math. Maximize share holder wealth by standing by the majority of consumers.

There is of course the Home Depot way, have the company denounce the anti minority laws while the major owner spends his personal money to support them. Plausible deniability at the corporate level while the owner can be as racist as he likes.

Chic fil a stopped firing employees when they were getting booted off college campus food courts. The company stopped giving corporate money to antiLQBTQ groups. The primary owner may still but the company stopped because of losing revenue.

Good for delta, call Georgia bluff on the tax break. They will just move the hub somewhere else, if you don't believe that just look at CVG, the greater cincinnati airport that used to be a Delta hub. Someone will want it if the georgia senate and governor take away the tax break.

[underpants]

3. A problem of their own creation through failure

The failure of their ideas and the economic, financial, and governmental effects.
Everything they “stand for” was a mistake to start with and failed miserably. All of it was cover to protect racists and polluters to start with and now it’s exposing itself.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. Talk is cheap. Let's see these companies start puling back

on their political contributions to re-elect the same lowlifes who are stabbing us all in the back.

[uponit7771]

5. That's a nice way to put republicans anti democracy bullshit