Politics

Fergus Hodgson has an excellent opinion piece at The Epoch Times talking about ESG. It is the latest cancer cutting the heartbeat out of corporations and is the woke and environmental crowDs attempt to fleece businesses out of money to support their causes. <https://www.theepochtimes.com/esg-investing-is-a-false-god_3667128.html?utm_source=share-btn-copylink&st=N0Bm-R3ga9uDdpe8yCjLz8VwTg3FUNAGvXvwJCp93SQwMpA-MWKfTMEeTgk4929OX5R2He4pM6euE6QM92OqN4ULEwYY2-nuL-E>

Fergus correctly points out that this is simply the latest incarnation of the attacks on what has been knows as the Friedman Doctrine https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctrine-the-social-responsibility-of-business-is-to.html. The following is perhaps the heart of the battle between freedom and socialism:

“Friedman went against the Zeitgeist and defended the ethical value of profit as a firm’s objective. Further, he saw through the façade now referred to as ESG: “Businessmen who talk this way are unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society. … The doctrine of ‘social responsibility’ involves the acceptance of the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources.”

Read the whole thing.

Biden in October 2020 (pre-election):

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>.<a href=”https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@JoeBiden</a> in October: “I have this strange notion, we are a democracy … if you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.&quot; <a href=”https://t.co/7UotJCXSm3″>pic.twitter.com/7UotJCXSm3</a></p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=”https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1354035368211984390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>January 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

Biden Post-Election:
In President Biden’s first week alone, he has signed 37 executive orders and actions as of Thursday.

As noted by The Hill “That’s 33 more than the guy he indirectly referred to as a dictator, in the form of predecessor Donald Trump. It’s 32 more than his old boss, Barack Obama, and 37 more than George W. Bush, who signed zero in his first week as president.”

I guess we figured out who the dictator really is, but we knew the Democrats pre-election projection onto Trump and Republicans was just that. The Democrats are the party of slavery, racism, fascism and socialism.

All responsibly minded people reviewed the events on Capitol Hill with disdain. The Democrats and their media apparatchiks have claimed it was an insurrection and an attempt to overthrow the government. Well, let’s go through an analysis of this.

An insurrection is a violent uprising against an authority or government. You would have to default to yes given people died. The police shot and killed a military veteran and a Capitol policeman died as a result of injuries sustained.

Now, was this an attempt to overthrow a government? No, it wasn’t. How can you say that I’ve been asked. Well, you don’t attack a Capitol without being armed. The overwhelming majority of the people I have seen on videos from the Capitol were people looking amazed at being there.

Clearly, we have people on the left and the right who would want nothing more than for the US to fail. I view politics as a circle where the extremes on both sides really meet. It is very hard to tell a Mao leftist from a third-reich supporter. In each, they want to control and do away with dissenters.

From the post-January 6th days forward, one side has really been showing its true colors in a Maoist and Third-Reich way and that would be the Democrats. Their intent, as many of them, both elected and unelected have said, it to eliminate conservatives.

The question they should have to answer is why? They don’t seem capable of having a debate on the culture without name calling.

The answer is clear: when you’re indoctrinated into a belief system, you can’t really deal with alternatives because you lack critical thinking. From the looks of it, we have an entire generation who fits that description.

Why is it that whenever Democrats get into office they always espouse policies that help them consolidate power but are repressive to the people? Their policies seem to align with our enemies’ policies against us.

The unfolding of the events over the recent days has many politicians in Democrat controlled cities calling for the elimination of police departments in their cities or at least defunding them. From Minneapolis to LA, you are hearing chants to defund the police departments and put the money into the poor black communities.

I don’t know what these politicians plan to put the money into with the black communities, but I presume these same Democrats now support the 2nd Amendment. If you can’t call the police to help you fend off a home invader, I guess you need to do it yourself.

While Biden’s comments are being erased by all of the social media companies, Mollie Hemingway has a great point.

One thing has become clear during the Wuhan Flu lockdowns: Democrat politicians are more than happy to suppress your first amendment rights. Since the U.S. is the exception to the general rule around the world in that we have these freedoms guaranteed to us by our Constitution, and with China deciding to take control over Hong Kong, why don’t we have Trump work a deal to send them over there? Perhaps one could even become the head of communist China’s newest satellite. Why screw us up?