CANCEL CULTURE IS A TACTIC USED BY CORPORATIONS AT THE BEHEST OF THE PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT

 CANCEL CULTURE IS A TACTIC USED BY CORPORATIONS AT THE BEHEST OF THE PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

 

“A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.” James Madison

 

Cancel culture is simply a process of punishing a person or group from exercising their free speech. Instead of a person or group attempting to persuade others that another’s behavior or speech is wrong or harmful to others, the cancel culture corporate advocates attempt to eliminate or punish an individual or group’s right to free speech. It is an actual attack on our constitutional republic’s rights for free speech. It is the foundation of all of our rights. 

 

Cancel culture, along with political correctness and accusations of white supremacy and hate speech are being employed to limit or restrain certain speech that is contrary to progressive ideology. It was tested in the socialist halls of education and it was successful in limiting the speech of any opposition. It has become routine for the social media to censor users on their platforms. This was even done to the president of the United States.

 

Leftist have devised a sophisticated method of coercing mega corporations to follow in lock-step with their progressive agenda. Previously they used a more direct approach of picking winners and losers and using government agencies such as the IRS and others to harass conservative organizations. This concept was so alien to the US citizens’ belief system in competitive capitalism that there was resistance to this policy.

 

The new scheme is based on the more innocuous term of social responsibility. Government bureaucrats and activists created a Social Responsibility Rating (SRR) to persuade large corporations to implement their progressive agenda to achieve high SRR ratings. The high SRR number signals that the enormous pension funds would put their money in these “woke” companies. The more traditional conservative corporations are punished for their low scores. To gain a larger slice of the pension pie, a mega corporation has to shift their approach and practices to match those of the progressive administration. This means that the low SRR companies either remain silent or support bizarre cancel culture actions such as cancelling Peter Pan, Dr. Seuss, Senator Josh Hawley’s book and the All Star baseball game or pay extortion money. 

 

“You know someone very profoundly once said many years ago that if fascists ever come to America it will come in the name of liberalism.” “And what is fascism?” Reagan said. “Fascism is private ownership, private enterprise but total government control and regulation.”

 

Government control and power has reared its head. Just this week Delta Airlines, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, switched from supporting the well thought out new Georgia voting laws to opposing them. The president of Delta, Glen Hauenstein, stated he is no longer in favor of the baseball all-star game being played in Atlanta. James Quincey, president of Coca cola, called the new Georgia voting law "unacceptable," and "a step backwards. He used the same fallacious reasoning about the voting bill that President Biden did when he said it would end at 5pm saying that working people would not have sufficient time to cast their vote and it was inhumane not to give water to voters. Both were not true. 

 

The United States government is entering a new era where the progressive movement has gone beyond President Obama’s picking winners and losers in business. The Biden administration is harnessing the power of mega corporations to disregard stockholders vested interest in their corporate stocks and turn to the concept of “social responsibility” for the people of the world.

 

This corporate social responsibility rating influences the amount of funds that corporations will receive. This new process for corporate growth and power has influenced international corporations to be co-opted by progressive decrees. Many corporations are now willing to join the progressive tactics to shut down an individual or organization’s voice that is in conflict with government-controlled policies. 

 

Being a puppet of a fascist government has become more acceptable as long as the multi-national corporations grow along with the guaranteed seven figure salary for the CEO. This partnership with international corporations and a powerful centralized government is reminiscent of past fascist nations. It should frighten every legal citizen or illegal one entering our non-borders. Without consideration for citizens’ rights of free speech and participation in decision making many things will eventually “go to hell in a handbasket.” This is nothing more than a coup by a centralized fascist government of the USA. 

 

All citizens left or right should comprehend that without the voice of citizens or respect of their rights, a brutal government will rear its head destroying our goodness and protection from government evil. 

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.