It's Time To Take Down Big Businesses

Also, another quick note.  Gentle readers should go read J. B. Shurk at the American Thinker today in an article entitled Deep State Plutocrats Have Nowhere to Hide.

The worst mistake the Deep State ever made was to turn conservatives against Big Business. Traditionally, fighting corporate power was the purview of the political left. Conservatives have generally backed “free markets” because they despise socialism’s predilection for choosing economic winners and losers. Conservative voters have long seen government regulation as more of a threat than Wall Street wheeling and dealing.

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What’s changed over the last ten years is that the vestigial boundary between private markets and government force has all but disappeared. Strangely enough, the corporate embrace of woke-ism as a social philosophy that should be imposed upon consumers has had the serendipitous effect of shattering the imaginary wall once separating Big Business from Big Government. Parents began asking why Target and Disney were shoving transgenderism and child sex changes down their throats. Moviegoers started resenting how Hollywood studios had replaced entertainment with divisive re-education seminars on “white supremacy,” “patriarchy,” and “global warming.” Voters were forced to acknowledge that Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and corporate news shows were censoring conservative speech and promoting far-left propaganda. Consumers realized that banks were systematically punishing them for their Second Amendment advocacy, religious affiliations, and political beliefs. All of these corporate provocations fell like sledgehammer blows upon conservatives’ heads, and Americans who once gave corporations a quiet pass became increasingly loud and angry.

Shurk points to just who is the problem, but provides no possible solution. Well, I have one. In the early part of the 20th century, so-called "trust busting" was big, and the government went after all sorts of monopolies. These massive corporations have again become monopolistic, and we need to break them up again. Companies like BlackRock need to be broken up. Banks need to be separated again. We need more local and regional banks and corporations and fewer national and international ones. We need to go back to local restaurants and get rid of the national chains. companies like Google and Microsoft also need to be divested of a lot of their services, which should go to smaller more agile competitors. Just as Standard Oil was broken up, so should giant, unaccountable businesses.