When the Corporatists Win

 

(originally posted on Medium 8/7/24, pre-election, titled "Our two choices this election are clear")

If you look at the duality of our economy, owners vs workers, Wall Street vs Main Street, CEOs vs janitors, you can see it mirrored in our political choices in stark terms this year.

Looking at the background of both sets of candidates, it’s clear that Trump/Vance come to the campaign largely as businessmen, representing corporate interests. Their governing experiences (4 years/1.5 years respectively) have been guided by corporate interests from the start. If you run a business, you might think they can do the job as well or better than the politicians. Right? Many CEOs and techbros believe this idea.

Harris/Walz comes with decades of government and public service experience. They have been trained to serve the law, the greater good, the workers, and The People at large. Equity is written into the Constitution that they vow to protect.

Corporate culture makes no such vow. The mendacity and greed of the corporate class has been laid bare these last few years after the pandemic. Our current economy is based on stockholder riches, not operational flexibility so they can’t hide the incompetence anymore. We all know now the contempt that business has for employees — they can’t replace them with software fast enough. These companies have no respect for consumers either — products are shoddy, customer service is nonexistent. This is true across the board in every industry at the corporate level.

Why do we want these people running our government when they obviously are only out for their own enrichment and are running our once-strong institutions into the ground? They have no commitments to us and no inclination to do the right thing for the country.

It should be clear to everyone right now, and I’m going to shout it, that BUSINESSMEN HAVE NO BUSINESS IN GOVERNMENT. The objectives and contexts of each endeavor are radically different. STOP ELECTING BUSINESS PEOPLE TO CLEAN UP GOVERNMENT! They will treat their constituents like employees and treat their stockholders - their donors - like constituents. And look out when they figure out we can’t be fired and we’re not going to leave. They have already made plans for security to see us off the premises.