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“Massive corporations are pursuing a common and mutually agreed upon agenda to destroy American freedom,” attorney Ashley Keller told a gathering of the most powerful legal organization in America last Saturday.
This conspiracy, Keller claimed, includes companies as varied as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Twitter, and Walmart, all of which have joined forces with “the swelling ranks of so-called ‘woke’ people, who are completely and unabashedly opposed to individual rights.”
“Defenders of freedom must face reality,” Keller insisted, before adding the nation’s top advocacy group for big business to his list of enemies. “The Chamber of Commerce is not our friend. The C-suite grandees who finance it are not our friends either. They were erstwhile allies of convenience — and they are now the enemies of a freedom-loving people.”
It’s the sort of conspiratorial thinking one might expect to hear on the Alex Jones Show, or perhaps from disciples of QAnon. But Mr. Keller’s […]
History, according to Mark Twain, doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme. We are in an era of large dominating corporations that echoes the time of the early 20th century. Back then, we had Teddy Roosevelt to “bust the trusts” and protect the environment. But today no one remotely resembling Roosevelt is on the scene. However, if this historical resemblance holds, we are looking at another major, or even world war on the horizon.
Sounds like they are totally oblivious to the we in “we the people” including the origin of the phrase.