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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf a corporation, business, or individual donates to Retrumplicans, you support fascism and racism
I understand low taxes and all that, I get it, but if you're supporting Retrumplicans, with their end-runs around Constitutional Rights and Voter Suppression laws, you support racism and fascism. P-E-R-I-O-D, ALL STOP!.
There is not "gray area" here.
You can't say, "well, Democracy and Decency are nice, but tax breaks and deregulation..."
The entire leadership of the Reteumplican Party watched an attempt to violently overthrow the United States of America, and their response is "no harm/no foul". Sorry to Liz Chaney and Adam Kinzinger, but you're nothing but Germans who thought Hitler had gone to far. Your impact in changing the march of Reteumplican fascism, is that of a frog farting in a hurricane.
Nothing is going to change, as long as racism, fascism, misogyny and white supremacy is profitable to those that fund it.
The current Retrumplican Party is nothing but an organized crime family.
Remember, it wasn't internal people turning on organized crime families that hurt them the most, it was cutting off their funding supply. Al Capone didn't give a shut about a year in jail, but take out a couple of million dollar shipments of goods? Now that hurt.
It's way past time to start going after the funding stream of Retrumplican extremism. Its way past time to start holding their funders accountable.
It's time to start demanding answers from corporations that give Retrumplicans succor.
If you operate your business in a Retrumplican State...
- Are you including travel pay to out of state for your women of childbearing age employees in the event they want to exercise their Constitutional Rights?
- Are your planning to import educated workers, or are you hiring the "sacks of hammers" Retrumplican run Schools are going to create?
- Do minorities, the elderly, the disabled, the working poor that work on tour businesses and buy you products and services, also have the rights to ballot access? You know how to prove it? CLOSE YOUR DOORS COMPLETELY ON ELECTION DAY!
If you won't do that, then don't say one more fucking word about how "woke" you are, or how "outraged" you are about Voter Suppression. Your word means SHIT!!!
- Will you employ LGBTQ workers, or minorities?
- How about funding firearms training so your employees can defend themselves against every concealed carry nut job in the Retrumplican state you do business?
- Will your insurance cover medical costs when one of your LGBTQ workers gets the snot beat out of them for being LGBTQ?
- What will you say to your employees whose kid gets the shit beat out of them because they are different? "Just Don't Say Gay"???
- How about your employees spouse, a teacher that gets turned into the fascist police? Will you pay to defend them?
Are tax breaks worth it?
Is the hellscape Retrumplicans are creating "good for business"?
Look, it's pretty fucking simple
"None of this will ever change. The racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy...NONE OF IT will change, unless and until we make racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy unprofitable to the corporations that fund it, and the people that enable it."
If you have looked at the political landscape in Texas, or Georgia, or West Virginia, or South Carolina, or Indiana, or Ohio, or Florida, and you've said; "thank you sir, may I have another", then you have shown what you are.
I remember that some big corporations were so outraged about the Georgia Voter Suppression Laws.
They were "outraged" all the way up until those laws passed, and 2 DAYS LATER, THEY WENT BACK TO DONATING TO THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS THAT PASSED THOSE LAWS!!!
Guess what? As long as it is profitable for corporations to support racism and fascism, they will continue to support racism and fascism.
Until the current Retrumplican Party gets off the Crazy Train, corporations that fund them should be treated like leppers.