Mon Jan 11, 2021, 01:28 AM
catbyte (24,187 posts)
It's not just Republicans in Congress who share the blame for the failed Trump insurrection
Phil Mattera, DC Report @ Raw Story
January 08, 2021 Republican members of Congress who abetted the plot to overturn the election will go down in infamy along with the disgraced 45th President himself. That applies both to the dead-enders who still repeat the lies and those senators and representatives who abandoned the shameful crusade only after a mob whipped up by Trump invaded the Capitol. There is another group of enablers who should be called to account: Corporate America. Sure, big business is now frantically trying to distance itself from Trump, with the National Association of Manufacturers going so far as to urge that Vice President Pence and the Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment. Amid the chaos on Wednesday, the Business Roundtable called on Trump to put an end to the violence. In late November, a group of more than 160 chief executives urged the Trump Administration to accept Biden's victory and cooperate in the transition process. While Trump moved steadily along the path to authoritarianism, large companies allowed themselves to be bought off with tax giveaways and regulatory rollbacks. Yet, as with Congressional Republicans, these gestures came after four years of enabling Trump's anti-democratic practices. While Trump moved steadily along the path to authoritarianism, large companies allowed themselves to be bought off with tax giveaways and regulatory rollbacks. There were occasional confrontations with corporations such as Carrier and General Motors over layoffs and offshoring, but these were bogus, reality-TV-type confrontations that amounted to nothing. snip On the whole, big business has offered little more than mild rebukes to Trump's dangerous tendencies while reaping substantial benefits. Like Congressional Republicans, Corporate America needs to be held to account. https://www.rawstory.com/its-not-just-republicans-in-congress-who-share-the-blame-for-the-failed-trump-insurrection/
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Response to catbyte (Original post)
Mon Jan 11, 2021, 02:16 AM
denbot (8,725 posts)
2. Yup, how corporations fund beneficial policy has to be on the table.
Follow the money.
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Mon Jan 11, 2021, 02:19 AM
moondust (16,541 posts)
3. Tax cuts and deregulation.
Plus the White Collar Criminal in Chief is naturally gonna be weak on white collar crime since he has neither the desire nor the moral authority to prosecute his "peers." Big business has never had it so good.
Wall Street gone wild!!!! ![]() |