The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday is the political war being waged by corporations against conservatives. The war has been raging for months and possibly years, but the latest battle is the issue revolving around the new voter law in Georgia.
Much has been written about the law,
which was compared to “Jim Crow laws” by President Joe Biden. According to Ben Shapiro, the new law echoes the federal laws and requires an ID number to
receive an absentee ballot. It also bars “electioneering within 150 feet of a
polling place or 25 feet of voters in line,” which includes partisans handing
out food and water to the voters waiting in line.
In addition, the law increases “the number
of mandatory days of weekend early voting,” preserves “some drop boxes that did
not exist before the pandemic,” requires “additional voting machines and
election personnel in crowded precincts,” and increases “voting hours in future
elections for the vast majority of counties.”
Even though the provisions in new
Georgia law “are similar to the laws in a vast majority of states,” President
Biden, other Democrats, and the media spread lies about it. In addition to
their lies, they “bullied corporations into taking positions on the Georgia
election law.” Three big corporations took actions to “help fight Georgia’s
restrictive new voting law.”
Coca-Cola “issued a statement
deploring an election law the corporation hadn’t bothered to lobby against
before its passage.” Delta’s CEO explained, “I need to make it clear that the
final bill is unacceptable and does not match Delta’s values.” Major League
Baseball listened to the Biden’s advice and moved the All-Star Game to Denver,
Colorado. This move will cost businesses in Georgia $100 million. Many of those
businesses are Mom and Pop operations that are struggling and fighting to stay in
business.
Shapiro suggests that conservatives
are “left with little choice but to exert counter-pressure” to the left’s
weaponization of the “most powerful institutions in America.” He stated that
the “only alternative is the formation of alternative companies in every
industry.”
The left has politicized everything. The
right has avoided that tactic, because it’s ugly and divisive. But it’s too
late to put the genie back in the bottle. It’s time for mutually assured
destruction.
There’s only one thing worse than having
nuclear weapons: unilateral disarmament. Better to establish mutually assured
destruction now and put corporate America on notice that, by stepping into the
middle of fraught political debate, it risks just as much blowback from the
right as from the left.
Corporations are not the only
businesses that have been weaponized. Big Tech took a big role in the 2020
presidential election. Twitter, Facebook, and Google censored the news to keep
bad news about Biden from reaching Americans. The big news that was censored
was the information about Hunter Biden’s computer and what was on it. Only
alternative news sites said anything about the computer or the federal
investigation of Hunter Biden. There was nothing in the mainstream news about
the connection between various members of the Biden family and the Chinese
government.
It also appears that Big Tech was
involved in the actual election process. The results of the election leave
millions of Americans distrusting the process and a question about the
legitimacy of leaders now in office. Numerous states, like Georgia, have taken
steps to ensure that the next election will have more integrity.
Hayden Dublois and Trevor Carlsen posted an article about the election process in Pennsylvania. They wrote that some
actions “have proven to be widely popular across the political spectrum.” These
actions include “using existing technology to livestream ballot counting and
monitor ballot drop boxes, imposing penalties on officials who mislead the
public, and requiring mail-in ballots to be postmarked by Election Day.” These
reforms would bring more integrity to the election process in Pennsylvania. However,
there is something even “more egregious” that violated the trust of the people –
“the growing influence of corporate money in local jurisdictions.”
During the last election cycle, the Chan
Zuckerberg Initiative, founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife
Priscilla Chan, gave the Center for Tech and Civic Life more than $350 million
to award “grants” to local jurisdictions as a way of allegedly helping counties
and municipalities run their elections safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This money – which the Foundation for
Government Accountability has dubbed “Zuckerbucks” – was supposed to help with
pandemic-related expenses, including personal protective equipment and other
unique challenges at a time of social distancing.
Requests for public records in
Pennsylvania counties have revealed that most of this money wasn’t used for
personal protective equipment but for get-out-the-vote efforts and other
non-related COVID-19 expenses, which influenced Democrat turnout and actually
may have affected the results of the election in the state….
It appears that the greatest allocation of
Zuckerbucks went to counties with the greatest chance of Democrats winning….
There is also evidence that Zuckerbucks
influenced election outcomes by mobilizing Democrat voters. Democrat turnout in
Zuckerbucks counties didn’t match the changes experienced in counties without
the influx of cash….
With the “success” of Zuckerbucks last
year, nothing is stopping billionaires from California and New York from
exerting this same partisan influence in 2022, 2024, and beyond.
Millions of Americans are concerned
about the integrity of elections and question what they can do about it. David W. Almasi claims that there are things that ordinary Americans can do, especially
those people who “own just one share of stock in a publicly traded corporation.”
Recognizing that it is a “David-versus-Goliath strategy” not used enough by conservatives,
Almasi “called into the Walt Disney Co.’s virtual shareholder meeting. CEO Bob
Chapek was caught off guard when Almasi “accused him of blacklisting anyone not
adhering to Hollywood’s left-wing agenda.”
Most shareholder meetings reserve time for
such questions. It’s a unique opportunity for average Americans to address CEOs
and other high-ranking executives in front of their boards of directors, other
executives, investors, and the media. The price of admission is as little as
owning one share of the company’s stock.
The Free Enterprise Project of the National
Center for Public Policy Research, of which I am vice president, has used this
simple process as a powerful tool for change, and so can you….
As a shareholder, you also have voting
privileges on important matters, such as the board of directors and shareholder
resolutions.
If conservatives begin voting their shares
in large numbers like the left does, CEOs may realize “it’s no longer worth doing
the woke left’s political bidding and focus instead on improving their
respective companies,” said Justin Danhof, director of the Free Enterprise
Project. Just like politicians, CEOs are influenced by those who bend their ears.
Almasi claimed that “Boycotts aren’t
effective,” and “Engagement is key to conservatives’ effectiveness in the
corporate culture wars.” However, businessman and former President Donald Trump
called for conservatives to boycott the corporations condemning the new Georgia
election law. He suggested that Americans stop drinking Coca Cola products, stop
flying Delta Airlines, and stay away from Major League Baseball. Boycotting
them may not put them out of business, but it would not be supporting them.
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