\nToday\u2019s corporate ideology has a strong affinity with the lifestyles of those who are defined by mobility, ethical flexibility, liberalism (whether economic or social), a consumerist mentality in which choice is paramount, and a \u201cprogressive\u201d outlook in which rapid change and \u201ccreative destruction\u201d are the only certainties. The response to Indiana\u2019s RFRA law shows very clearly that corporations have joined forces with Republicans on economic matters and Democrats on social ones. Corporate America is aligned with the ascendant \u00adlibertarian portion of each party, ensuring a win for the political, economic, and \u00adsocial preferences of libertarianism. In effect, there is only one functional party in America today, seemingly parceled between the two notional parties but in reality unifying them in its backing by financial and cultural elites.<\/p>\n
W<\/span>hat this means is that today\u2019s cultural power elite is entirely aligned with the economic power elite, and they\u2019re ready to steamroll anyone in their way. In the case of Indiana\u2019s RFRA, corporate and gay activists combined to bring to heel conservative Christians in a rural, Rust Belt state that struggles at the margins of America\u2019s global economy. The threat to demolish Indiana\u2019s economy is only a more explicit expression of a project that corporations like Apple and Walmart have been carrying out with the \u00adassistance mainly of Republicans (as well as free-trade Democrats) for a generation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yup: Today\u2019s corporate ideology has a strong affinity with the lifestyles of those who are defined by mobility, ethical flexibility, liberalism (whether economic or social), a consumerist mentality in which choice is paramount, and a \u201cprogressive\u201d outlook in which rapid change and \u201ccreative destruction\u201d are the only certainties. The response to Indiana\u2019s RFRA law shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-92616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-our-ruling-class-vs-the-rest-of-us"],"yoast_head":"\n
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