Press: Corporate America defies the GOP

[Fla Dem]

Bill Press, opinion contributor April 13, 2021 2 hrs ago

For those of us in the media, one reason covering politics is both so much fun and so frustrating is the many twists and turns that politicians make on issues, with little concern for being branded as hypocrites. Just when you thought you knew where Republicans stood on deficit spending, for example, everything changed. They used to be against it. Then, under former President Trump, they didn't care. Now, under President Biden, they're against it again.

But, of all the flip-flops we've seen Republicans make, none takes your breath away more than their U-turn on the role of corporations in politics. They used to welcome it - as long as corporations were writing big checks to Republican candidates. But once corporations took a stand against voter suppression, they quickly became all against it.

We remember the glee with which Republicans cheered the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010. Yes, Republicans argued, just like individuals, big businesses had every right to make unlimited campaign contributions because, as GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney famously declared in August 2011: "Corporations are people, my friends." They expressed the same glee in June 2014 when the craft store chain Hobby Lobby won a ruling from the Supreme Court allowing it to deny insurance coverage for contraception as part of its health care plan for female employees.

That was the official Republican Party mantra: Corporations are people. You can make political contributions. You can express your opinion. You can take stands on political issues. We welcome your involvement in politics. At least, that was the Republican Party line, until this month - when American corporations dared take a stand Republicans didn't like. Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, and Home Depot came out in opposition to Georgia's new voting law, which makes it more difficult for people, especially in minority communities, to vote. And Major League Baseball yanked the All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver.


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[Fla Dem]

1. Of course they're hypocrites. They are for themselves and a few discriminatory practices.

What the Right is for:

-Lower taxes on the Super Rich.
-Anti Birth Control and Abortion and that just to keep the religious RW happy.
-Discrimination and proposals to handicap and prevent Black and Brown population from succeeding.
-Anti immigration from Black and Brown countries.
-Support oil and gas pipelines through Native lands.
-Anti Climate change policies.

I'm sure you can name a few more.

[brewens]

2. The key here is that they would like to still be corporations and keep running them.

If they allow republicans to destroy our democracy, there is no telling what might happen.