By William Haupt III / Tennessee Watchdog Journalist, Columnist, Author, and Citizen Legislator
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi - Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore / CC
“Woke-ism, has distorted our history and has made a
mockery out of Democracy.” —Mike Pompeo
Speaker Pelosi’s top priority is to turn America into a
progressive one-party nation ruled by the far left. Her latest effort is HR 1.
It trashes the U.S. Constitution and rigs the system to make it virtually
impossible to elect a Republican president or Congressperson ever again. It’s
an unconstitutional power grab. It is a blatant slap in the face of every voter
in America and every independent state.
Our founders worried that an all-powerful central
government would seize control of presidential and congressional elections
utilizing unorthodox tactics like those included in HR 1. That is why they took
the selection of federal officers totally out of the hands of the central
government.
Article II, Sec. 1 of the U.S. Constitution clearly
states that “only state legislatures have the power to determine how federal
representatives are chosen.” There are no national rules. But Pelosi has no
problem ignoring the Constitution to give her party total control over
government and eliminate anyone from getting elected to federal office that
does not support far left democratic socialism.
Twenty Republican state attorney generals have expressed
grave concerns that HR1, the “For the People Act,” which barely passed the U.S.
House last month is unconstitutional and is a violation of states’ rights. They
have vowed to fight it all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if it
passes.
Progressives in the Senate are vigorously trying to pass
their form of HR 1, the For the People Act of 2021. They too plan to suppress
the autonomy of our states to control their own elections. They are spreading
propaganda much like Lenin did when he terrorized socialist Russia, to convince
the people, that federalizing state elections, and violating their 10th Amendment
rights is best for them.
It was once said that “all is fair in love and war and
politics” and the Democrats have proven this. They know once people read
between the lines of this unconstitutional monstrosity, they will demand that
it is put out of its misery and sent to the legislative graveyard and buried 6
ft. under.
So the left has taken out prime time ads on local and
national TV and cable networks to pitch this. These ads are being paid for by
the Democratic Party and by corporate America—believe it or not.
There was a time not so long ago that American big
business supported the GOP because they knew that, as government grows so does
the amount of tax dollars it takes to support it. It was a simple matter of
self-preservation to back the GOP and a smaller less regulated government. Then
why are so many major U.S. companies turning “woke” and shooting themselves in
both feet?
With the election of Barack Obama and the love affair
that the media had with him, corporate America quickly found out; if they did
not buy into this hype, it could hurt their sales and profits. They were also
concerned, if they fell from grace with his administration he would pass
anti-corporate legislation since he had campaigned to punish the rich and
redistribute wealth.
Big business loved the policies of Donald Trump and the
way he protected their interests at home and on the international stage with
China and other nations. For the most part, they tried to remain out of the
political arena and count their profits. But like all good things, that came to
an end with the pandemic and they changed their stripes quicker than a flea can
jump on a Tennessee hound.
As the 2020 general election unfolded it was clear that
there was no way that progressives, socialists and the media would allow Trump
to be reelected. And one by one U.S. companies fell prey to the identity
politics of the left as they gathered groups like BLM, Antifa, professional
sports unions and outspoken super star athletics into their anti-Trump and GOP
election camps.
They saw the writing on the boardroom wall when Joe Biden
eked out a victory over Donald Trump-- due to voter fraud in Democrat-controlled
districts located in key battleground states. And today they are turning “woke”
faster than Barack Obama can say, “Change!”
Top executives of some of the largest corporations on the
world business stage released a collaborative statement Wednesday claiming that
they support “democracy”–or what they conceive as democracy in today’s “woke
world”–disregarding we are a Constitutional republic.
This is a generic statement that grew out of a “supposed
summit” of over 100 CEOs, CBOs and other top executives that attended this meeting
in person or by proxy. The summit was convened in response to the passage of
Georgia’s updated election-integrity law and similar legislation in other
states that only addresses fixing the issues of concern that transpired during
the last election.
This was a collaborative corporate statement that was
released as a paid ad which appeared in The New York Times, The Washington
Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
This ad reveals their deceptive view of “woke democracy”:
“A government of the people, by the people. A
beautifully American ideal, but a reality denied to many for much of this
nation’s history. As Americans, we know that in our democracy we should not
expect to agree on everything. However, regardless of our political
affiliations, we believe the very foundation of our political process rests
upon the ability of each of us to cast our ballots for the candidates of our
choice.
For American democracy to work, we must
ensure the right to vote for all of us. We should all feel a responsibility to
defend the right to vote and to oppose any discriminatory legislation or
measures that restrict or prevent any eligible voter from having an equal and
fair opportunity to cast a ballot.
Voting is the lifeblood of democracy, and we
call upon all Americans to join us in taking a nonpartisan stand for this most
basic and fundamental right of all Americans.”
A total of 107 corporations were involved in this!
You will notice that the two most vocal companies that
lobbied to have the Baseball All Star Game removed from Atlanta, Coke and Delta
Airlines, did not sign on to this.
Accenture, AIG, Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, American
Airlines, American Express, Apple Bain & Company, Bank of America,
Berkshire Partners, Best Buy, BlackRock, Biogen, BMC Software Boston Consulting
Group, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Cambridge Associates, Cisco, Civic
Entertainment Group, Climb Credit, CODAworx, Cowboy Ventures, Creative Artists
Agency, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Discover Financial Services, Dropbox,
Eaton, Emerson Collective, Estee Lauder, Eventbrite, EY, Facebook, Ferrara,
FirstMark Capital, Ford Motor Co, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Harry’s, Hess,
IBM, Insight Partners Leadership, Instacart, Intelligentsia Coffee, Johnson
& Johnson, Jazz Lincoln Center, JetBlue, Khosla Ventures, Levi Strauss
& Co, Live Nation Entertainment, Loop Capital Markets, Lyft, M&T Bank,
MasterCard, McKinsey & Company, Merck, Microsoft, Mondelez International,
Nordstrom, Netflix, Newell Brands, Otherwise Inc., Paper Source, PayPal,
Peloton, Pinterest, Plaid, Predxion Bio, PwC, Reddit, REI Co-op Richer Poorer,
Salesforce, ServiceNow, Seventh Generation, Slow Ventures, Smith & Company
Sodexo USA, SodexoMAGIC, Sonos, Sound Ventures, Spark Capital, Square,
Starbucks, Steelcase, SurveyMonkey, Sweetgreen, Synchrony, T. Rowe Price,
Target, Tripadvisor, Tory Burch, Twilio, Twitter, Under Armour, United
Airlines, United Talent Agency, Vanguard, VMware, ViacomCBS, Warburg Pincus,
Warby Parker, Wells Fargo, Zendesk and Zola.
Now you are aware, if you are “un-woke,” you might want to think twice before you patronize any of these companies. It must be noted that even trying to avoid them might be near impossible, given the vastness of their entanglement in our daily lives.
How else can we fight back? The best way is with our votes
when we have free and fair elections ensured by voter reform laws, such as the one enacted by Georgia.
“Wokeness is the product of censorship and political
correctness and it all points in one direction— liberal authoritarianism,
cloaked around moral righteousness.” —Mike Pompeo
https://tennesseeconservativenews.com/woke-democracy-in-corporate-america/