From John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS – The
Corporate giants Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines made Republicans in Georgia
and spit crazy elsewhere.
John Krull, Editor, TheStatehouseFile.com
coke
and Delta did so by speaking out against Georgia's restrictive new electoral law.
designed by the GOP as an exercise to suppress voters. This new law
however, it is a crime, among other things, to bring people food or water
elderly or uncomfortable, standing in long series of votes.
The
The Republican power structure has responded with the anger of a confused lover
Who is shocked – shocked – to discover that what they thought was a marriage of
True love instead turned out to be a pair of ease.
A
Union that could be discarded when it is no longer useful.
Gov.
Brian Kemp and his Georgia Republicans have threatened to overturn the tax
The state breaks Coke and Delta to keep the Atlanta based businesses on.
US Senator Marco Rubio, R-Florida, and other GOP stalwarts have made it their own way
to deliver largely incoherent abuse of the "hypocrisy" of "aroused capitalism".
It
It turns out that there is an anger worse than that of a despised woman.
It
belongs to politicians who discover how the world works late.
one
These avenues revolve around this fundamental truth: Corporations do not exist
to fulfill the command of the Republican Party. Businesses exist to make money. The one
that doesn't make money stop being a business.
Most
Corporations – including Cola and Delta – can't make money and stay in business
Sell their products and services to Republicans only. You need to be able to do this
sell to increasingly diverse markets if they want to make it.
Big
The company's loyalty to the GOP or any other political party only goes so far
as a cash register. Once Republican politics starts costing businesses
The GOP is becoming a luxury that companies can no longer afford.
republican
can be forgiven if you think their relationship was exclusive.
Something
Years ago, an Indiana Republican legislature told me about meetings of the
Chamber of Commerce lobbyists had caucus with the GOP.
"The
The words change from time to time, ”the Republican legislature told me. "But the
The message is always the same: We own you. "
Get it
Observers understand that property was, is, and always was
Expediency, not immortal loyalty.
We have
Seen evidence of that here in Indiana.
When
The Hoosier Republicans chose to do the precepts of the social conservatives and put pressure on them
through an ill-named and even more unfortunate measure called religious
Freedom Restoration Act – RFRA – the state's largest employers banded together as one and together
broke with the GOP.
RFRA – which one
would allow Hoosiers to discriminate against LGBTQ citizens on religious grounds – was
likely to chase both investors and talent out of the state. Clever
Business people couldn't take it because they want it again
sell their goods and services to as many people as possible.
The
sexual orientations of their customers do not matter. Whether their checks are clear
does.
The
GOP came to a similar misunderstanding in Georgia.
republican
There are rightly concerns that demographics run against their party
and they want to curtail the franchise to try to hold back the tide. But that
runs counter to the interests of Coke and Delta in selling soft drinks
and airline flights to as many people as possible.
The
jilted GOP leaders can do whatever they want, but this is unlikely to change
Things. Kemp's threats to take tax breaks from the company are empty and the
Chiefs in America know. The politicians who chase major away
Employers buy early and unplanned retirement from office.
The
The same is true of Rubio's statements about "lively capitalism" and "hypocrisy".
His hype around the evil of companies that only do business with China
underlines the point. These companies do business with China because there is money
to be made in this country.
The
CEOs don't do what they do in Georgia because they "woke up".
they are
do because they are capitalists.
Expect
Companies that put the interests of the GOP before their own are like the expectation of one
Fish to ride a bike.
fish
Do not do that.
they
swim.
And
Business people do what they do.
Do
Money.
John
Krull is the director of the Pulliam School of Journalism at Franklin College and
Editor of TheStatehouseFile.com, a Franklin College news website
Journalist students.
