Greed, Fear, and Corporate Progressivism
Paul Adams
July 18, 2019 Updated: July 22, 2019
Remember the time when the left, starting with President Barack Obama himself, denounced the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision?
It was, they said, a blow to democracy and the public interest. It meant that corporations could act is if they were legal persons for certain purposes (as had been the case for several centuries). They could “buy†politicians and use their money and power to subvert and dominate democratic processes. They would corrupt politics with their political activity.
We don’t hear much about all that, now that corporations are truly subverting democracy—using their economic power. They threaten to relocate planned business expansions and sporting events—for example, to pressure governors to back down from enacting laws that protect religious freedom. Their pressure led to the ouster of the governor of North Carolina for supporting a “bathroom bill†that aimed to protect the privacy of women and children by requiring adults to use bathrooms, changing rooms, and showers corresponding to their biological sex.
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