I am going to comment on companies that are PUSHING the LGBTQ agenda, but I hope the question as to why companies are sabotaging themselves is something you’ve asked yourself throughout the COVID-era. Why would companies actively promote every “recommendation” from the State? Especially when it could be detrimental to their very existence.
Well, here’s State Farm:
From what I cover here on my Substack, I assume most of you have concluded that there is a war for your kid’s future. One that doesn’t include you teaching them your values but the ‘values’ of a small minority who is in power. THIS is the war that should be fought head-on right now and people who aren’t putting it at the forefront are missing it. They’re derelict in their duties.
So, why is State Farm, an old, well-known insurance company, pushing to get LGBTQ books in the hands of children as young as kindergartners? A term you may have heard in passing but not looked into is E.S.G. The definition on Wikipedia tries to sterilize it but still reveals a lot:
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is an approach to evaluating the extent to which a corporation works on behalf of social goals that go beyond the role of a corporation to maximize profits on behalf of the corporation's shareholders.
Well, that kind of goes against what we’ve been taught about corporate greed and the like, doesn’t it? Why would companies adopt a model that puts ‘social justice’ before profits? Maybe because they have to. I get into a bit in this episode with Michael Rectenwald, but Tommy Salmons over at the Year Zero podcast dedicated a full episode to ESG with Rectenwald. The most basic way of explaining the insidious nature of ESG is that businesses have essentially been assigned a ‘social credit score,’ and if they don’t meet ‘environmental, social, and corporate governance’ standards, they will be denied loans for expansion, etc. Basically, businesses either promote the Progressive agenda, or they’re out of business. Free market, huh?
So, if you’ve wondered why all of these corporations have gone “woke,” ESG has to be taken into consideration. It’s a vile way for the elite class to push their agenda using what you believe is a free market decision made by these companies. While some may wish to push that agenda on their own, those that may not wish to choose between stagnation, or becoming agenda driven. How do you vote your way out of that?
What genuinely gets me is that people still say "go woke, go broke" without ever thinking about why these corporations "go woke" in the first place and why they never seem to "go broke" after the fact
The Propaganda Report tends to do pretty good coverage of this sort of thing. They've been on it for at least a couple years now. Anyone new to the concept should also look into the concept of "stakeholder capitalism". Basically, trying to subvert the will of the owners/shareholders of these companies in favor of "society/the greater good" as defined by whatever authoritarian/technocratic entity is at the helm (currently the face seems to be the World Economic Forum, and the method seems to be ESG).