Controversial Political Opinions

[Eric the Green]

(07-19-2022, 01:56 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(07-19-2022, 12:26 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: A lot of these are headquartered here in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, which has been a center for progressive, liberal and counter-cultural trends for decades. People who work here are not exempt from the trends. If not here, then also a few up in another liberal bastion, Seattle.

They are headquartered in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area because...the founders of these companies were progressives too. I think there is a false dichotomy with regards to "caring about resources vs caring about people", when in practice it's more "people who care about controlling resources vs people who care about controlling people". Capitalists such as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates can fall into the latter category, as can communists like Mao Zedong and Che Guevara, as can religious fundamentalists of all creeds.

A lot of rich progressives are very money motivated. Not as a means of elevating their lifestyle, but because they have a savior complex, want to paint themselves as the good guy and believe these traits give them the right to tell other people how to live their lives.

Tying all this back to my main point, many corporate officials are a lot more like politicians than businessmen, so it's not surprising that just as many (if not more) are Democrat than Republican, because political animals are at their best when power is most centralized.

You are missing the point. It is the bosses who support Republicans. Employees support Democrats.

Democrats and especially progressive ones care about people and the resources they need. Republicans care only about money. Politicians within both parties are "political animals" because that's their profession. That is neither good nor bad. It is the decisions they make that are.

Progressives are not about telling other people how to live their "lives". "Life" is not making money. The "controlling people" that Democrats do is controlling how bosses treat everyone else. Without that control, they treat them and ALL of us very badly. That is the entire point. 

Bosses cannot be trusted to do the right things, and that includes Zuckerberg and the rest of the Silicon Valley bosses. Democrats are willing to control them; Republicans want them to "be free to live their lives", which means free to exploit other people and the environment however they want at the expense of the rest of us. And to deceive us with false "freedom" slogans and appeals to fear and prejudice.

FUCK the bosses, and the politicians who do their bidding (mostly Republicans and "libertarians" and "conservatives", and sometimes phony Democrats like Manchin too). We don't need the bosses, and we don't need Republicans; they need to just go away.