Corporate Communism

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Preface

"Under capitalism, man oppresses man. Under communism, it's the other way around." (Polish Joke)

I was born in the shadow of two great evils:  the Nazis and Communism.  Combined, well over 150 million children, men, and women were murdered in pursuit of utopias that only brought starvation, death, and unbelievable horror.  It is hard for the average Westerner to truly appreciate the living nightmare people were forced to endure for the dream of a better world - unless your family was shattered by communism, as mine was.  I am writing this book as a warning:  the West is facing an insidious new form of communism, one that I call “corporate communism” with Canada as its poster child.  

Corporations and global elites have merged the language and tactics of 20th century communism – centralized control, compelled speech, identity-based hierarchies, and the promise of better world through “stakeholder capitalism” and “equity” (which is not the same as equality).  They partner with governments to push “feel-good” policies that sound good on paper but deliver spikes in homicide rates, threats to our food security, energy poverty, and censorship.

Corporate Communism’s greatest asset is our kindness, our eagerness to support good causes without asking hard questions. For example, climate change. No one wants the world to boil to death, yet does it make sense to de-industrialize the West and race toward an arbitrary UN declared 2030 deadline without a realistic energy transition strategy? No is the answer, and yet that’s what governments around the world have done. Companies, not people, profit from this through subsidies and demands that we reshape our behavior.

Until very recently, billionaires were busy telling us that there was a looming climate apocalypse. Their language was stark, urgent. As the rich and mighty met with our elected politicians at various forums around the world, there has been much wringing of hands and furrowing of brows. Drawing inspiration from these global get togethers, governments turned their focus on citizens and began mandating changes such as establishing driving restrictions, forcing electric vehicle adoption, encouraging people to eat less meat, threatening to confiscate farmland, demanding farmers reduce their livestock by 30%, and telling people how they must heat their homes.

And then something odd happened.The foghorns blasting doomsday warnings about climate change were reduced to little honks. Suddenly, at about the same time, billionaires like Bill Gates said that focusing only on cutting emissions diverts attention from solving pressing problems that poor people face right now.

I happen to agree with him but my question is: why did all the billionaires who were singing from the same climate apocalypse song sheet suddenly shift to a new song sheet at about the same time? Why was their message no longer “Climate! Climate! Climate!” but now focused on making sure we have reliable energy?

Which I also happen to agree with.

I have never trusted pronouncements from on high unless I understood where they are coming from, so I began digging. Then it all made sense.

The new investment darling of the ruling class is Artificial Intelligence and gosh almighty, does AI need a ton of reliable energy. Wind turbines and solar panels just won’t cut it.And there, ladies and gentlemen, is a prime example of corporate communism: the ruling class tells us what to think and do and then tells us a different story when its suits their interests. Their pronouncements are often framed as helping the poor and saving the planet – never as increasing their own wealth and power.

It is a clever strategy. If someone like me pokes her head above the parapet and says, “Come again? Exactly how are we helping the poor while also protecting the interests of my own family?” the followers of corporate communism (they don’t know they’re followers of course) will set themselves upon you. Then people begin fighting each other and don’t have time to stop to look at how or why wealth keeps flowing upward.

In this book, I’ll trace how the West began sliding into corporate communism and then describe how corporate communism functions very effectively in Canada.  Finally, I offer suggestions as to how to find our way out of the clutches of corporate communism and back to a way of life that supports open conversations and democracy.

My Estonian mother escaped communism as a child. In 1944, she and my grandmother fled by boat to Sweden, ultimately finding safe harbor in Canada. Yet my mother lived her whole life feeling the effects of communism. The rest of our household felt its dark echoes. We lived among other Estonian refugees in Toronto, surrounded by a quiet, persistent ache – an impossible longing for loved ones “back home” in a country the Soviets had erased from the map. When I was growing up, you couldn’t find books on Estonia, its culture, our history. Communism wanted the past erased to build a bold new future.

As a little girl, I sometimes found my mother crying on her bed in the afternoon. I’d stand at the door and think, “Oh, she misses her daddy.” Her father, my grandfather, had been “disappeared” to Siberia and lived there completely isolated from his family for years. No one knew where he was or whether he was still alive. Only when Stalin died a deliciously ignoble death in 1953 were his political prisoners set free. My grandfather, once a robust and hearty farmer, was shipped home to Estonia on a stretcher, skin and bones, unable to walk. He lived until 1983, trapped behind the Iron Curtain in a communist “utopia” that people were forbidden to leave. He never saw his child again.

Once, for 5 minutes when my mother, brother, and I were in Sweden visiting the people who had cared for her when my grandmother was recovering from tuberculosis, my grandfather – with permission from the communists – was able to get a phone call through to speak to his daughter. I watched my mother’s face as she spoke to her father. The last time she had seen him, she had been six years old. Now 33, her face shone like the little girl who had been forced to say goodbye to her daddy and then rushed off with her terrified mother for the boat that would take them across a dark October sea.

My mother held the phone receiver tightly to her face with both hands, as if this would bring him closer to her. She said almost nothing but her eyes shone. After the call, I asked my mother what my grandfather had said. “I don’t know,” she replied. “He was speaking so fast, he wanted to get so much in, we only had five minutes. His Estonian was too sophisticated for me to understand.” But she had finally heard his voice again, and that was enough.I had answered the phone that morning, and I heard his voice, too. It was rich and deep. I still carry his voice in my heart; a voice filled with excitement and joy because he had finally reached through the Iron Curtain to his family. But I don’t speak Estonian at all, so I handed the phone to my mother.

The two had written each other over the years in very, very carefully worded letters. Censors read every single letter going into and out of the Soviet Empire, especially letters from those like my grandfather who had been a political prisoner. Censors were hired to cut out parts of the letters that made communism look bad or made the West look good. After receiving a few letters with chunks cut out, father and daughter learned to be very careful about what they wrote to each other. In short, they self-censored.

Self-censoring is now part of everyday life here in the West, especially in Canada. People don’t claim their right to freedom of expression because they are afraid. Many Western countries are riddled with speech laws. Being afraid to voice our opinion in a Western nation was unthinkable just a few years ago. People speak in whispers, even in their own homes. While we don’t get bundled up in the middle of the night and sent off to Siberia, many Westerners have been “banished” from society in a number of different ways, some unique to the 21st century. From being fired and made “unhireable”, to being shunned by friends, to hav ing your social media account deleted, many Western governments and corporations have found ways to make you suffer if you disagree with the socially accepted political narrative – the party line. People have even had their bank accounts shut down for political reasons – not just in Canada but in the U.S., Germany, the UK, and other Western nations. Being debanked is a form of financial censorship. It is one more way that corporations interfere with a citizen’s right to free speech.

From pushing for global governance aligned to one world view (just as the Soviets pushed for global communism), to encouraging mass migration and the removal of national borders and identities (just as the Soviets did), to demanding that people think and act a certain government- and corporately-approved way with algorithms that monitor everything we say and do, humanity is allowing itself to be absorbed into a form of communism that benefits only the rich and powerful, as communism always has and always will do.

Ironically, young people today who protest against capitalism are feeding right into the hands of the mightiest capitalists while completely undermining what made the West the best place on earth to live: free thinking and free speech. To combat corporate communism, the first thing we must do is see it. Then we must reclaim our right to think and speak as we wish because freedom of speech is the foundation of democracy. Without it, we lose all our other rights.

It may feel overwhelming and it may seem that there is little we can do.  I disagree, though I once felt the same hopelessness about the Soviet occupation of my mother’s homeland, even as a child.  After holiday meals, my brother and I would be sent to bed but we’d sneak back down for a pickle and then sit on the stairs behind the railings and listen in on the grownups.  Dinner guests who also had family trapped behind the Iron Curtain would sit drinking vodka into the night speaking passionately in Estonian.  As a very young girl, I still understood a bit of the language but my brother didn’t.  Turning to me, pickle in hand, he looked up and said, “What are they talking about?”

“They’re talking about when Estonia will be free again,” I replied. Then I added with a mix of despair and disgust, “Silly old people!”  It was hopeless, didn’t they understand that? 

Hopeless.

Then one day Estonia was free.On August 23, 1989, two million Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians stood together, arm in arm, in the longest human chain in history – and sang for their freedom and independence.  Weaving across the three countries through each of their nation’s capitals, it stretched for 420 miles (675 kilometers).  They triggered the fall of the Soviet Empire.  Months later, the Berlin Wall came down.

What we face today is not as dark and threatening as what my relatives suffered under communist rule.  But we are experiencing a tighter and tighter grip on our rights, and our ability to question authority, and speak freely.

My hope in writing this book is that it prompts questions and conversations.  You likely will not agree with everything I say – I’d be surprised if you did.  But if it helps you see things a bit differently, makes you a little more suspicious of those corporate feel-good messages and makes you want to know what’s actually behind them, that’s a great start. 

Chapter One

Black Square, Dark Days

"Evil most commonly enters the world under the guise of benevolence. Good people are easily manipulated because they are so widely oblivious to this fact." (Duncan Reyburn)

“I’m worried,” said Fiona, a friend of mine who owns a health food store.  “My staff say they’ll quit if I don’t post a black box on our Instagram account – in solidarity with George Floyd and Black Lives Matter and all of that.”

Her all-white staff living comfortable lives in a sweet university town had no clue that the anti-racism frenzy pushing for simplistic solutions to a complex problem was about to unleash an evil that left thousands of black people dead.  With fists in the air shouting Defund the Police!, crowds made up of largely young, white, “highly educated people” got what they wanted.  Police budgets were cut, officers were demoralized, and the police officers who hadn’t quit admitted to being afraid to make arrests, which emboldened the criminals. 

Across American cities, police forces were severely weakened, leading to a 43% jump in 2020 (over the previous 10-year average) in the murders of black men, women, and children.  The FBI reported that the demand to defund the police resulted in the largest spike in the black homicide rate it had ever seen.

Some have claimed that the only reason for the massive increase in the homicide rate in the United States at that time was due to the pandemic lockdowns because the homicide rate dropped sharply in 2024. Digging into the facts reveals that sorry, no, both the horrible rise and sudden drop in the black homicide rate both have to do with policing.  A deep-dive into the relationship between the murder rate and policing efforts found that “while de-policing kills, re-policing can save lives”.

This study of 15 large cities shows that as arrests and stops rose, murders declined. Overall, the sooner police activity (arrests and stops) began to recover from their post-Floyd slide, the earlier murder numbers began to drop. Commensurately, the sharper the increase in police activity the greater the fall in homicides across the 15 cities.

The study found “a strong link between de-policing and rising murder rates, and conversely, between re-policing and falling homicides across the 15 cities examined.”  Notably, cities such as Seattle which has not returned to “heightened police activity” have not experience a reduction in its homicide rate to pre-George Floyd levels. 

Now, Fiona didn’t resist slapping a black box on her Instagram account because she’s a racist.  Far from it.  As a business owner, my friend had simply always kept her small company out of the political fray.  In the summer of 2020, she didn’t know much about the Black Lives Matter organization or the social changes its manifesto demanded but then again, her lily-white dread-locked, vegan hipster staff didn’t really know much about it, either.  Did they know that two out of the three BLM founders were “trained Marxist?” 

Trained by whom, I always wondered, and for what purpose?

Marxism is about power – the oppressor vs the oppressed.  The Marxism that engulfed countries in the 20^th Century was about money and the class divide, the bourgeoisie (the rich) and the proletariat (the poor). The new Marxism of the 21^st Century leaves out the uncomfortable truth about today’s financial injustices and reduces the oppressor vs the oppressed narrative to various identity groups, with white, heterosexual men at the top of the oppressor hierarchy.  In this model – enacted through various Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies that mushroomed after the George Floyd riots – that an achingly poor white man from generations of poverty in Arkansas will be deemed to be “privileged” over and above a black professor at Princeton who was raised in a comfortable middle-class home in New Hampshire.  Rich, black “oppressed” trumps poor white “oppressor” every time.

This is the new Marxism, the neo-Marxism, and the stories it weaves are designed to undermine Western civilization as we know it.  Strangely, nice middleclass people have unthinkingly buy into stories that the new Marxism spins, pushing for changes that make them believe they are doing good when what they are supporting ultimately brings hardship and hunger, even death.  Combined with the fact that multinational corporations have harnessed the power of the Left and its political focus, pretending to champion many of the neo-Marxist causes to drive more profit and power to the very rich, genuinely caring people (myself included at one time) have been hoodwinked into undermining the West – the very civilization that has lifted more people out of poverty than any other in history. 

Big Business doesn’t need Western civilization to thrive and so taking up the “oppressed” vs “oppressor” mantle (provided it’s just focused on identity politics, the environment, and cultural issues and not on their business interests) has allowed them to get a pass from the Left as citizens get tangled up in the culture wars.But few of those on the Left see this.  What they imagine is that their influence within the global power structures is “winning” and soon we will have a more just and fair society.  But precisely the opposite is happening.  By keeping the culture wars on the front page of our news and as the main topics of discussion with friends and family, we are all being distracted from the powerplays that Big Business has been winning for more than 30 years.Just as Karl Marx urged his followers to undermine the nuclear family (while he, himself, lived in a nuclear family and enjoyed his wife’s care and feeding of him), BLM’s manifesto specifically stated that they want to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure …”.

Big Business doesn’t need Western civilization to thrive and so taking up the “oppressed” vs “oppressor” mantle (provided it’s just focused on identity politics, the environment, and cultural issues and not on their business interests) has allowed them to get a pass from the Left as citizens get tangled up in the culture wars.

But few of those on the Left see this.  What they imagine is that their influence within the global power structures is “winning” and soon we will have a more just and fair society.  But precisely the opposite is happening.  By keeping the culture wars on the front page of our news and as the main topics of discussion with friends and family, we are all being distracted from the powerplays that Big Business has been winning for more than 30 years.

Just as Karl Marx urged his followers to undermine the nuclear family (while he, himself, lived in a nuclear family and enjoyed his wife’s care and feeding of him), BLM’s manifesto specifically stated that they want to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure …”.  At the time, even in the midst of his presidential campaign, Joe Biden – who presented himself as a family man throughout his 50-year career – fully embraced the BLM movement, not seeming to notice the neo-Marxist drive to undermine America and love of family.  Soon after he explicitly supporting BLM’s neo-Marxist messaging during the 2020 elections, BLM soon scrubbed its contempt of family from its manifesto on their website.

But “trained Marxists” can’t scrub their hatred of the West from their hearts.

Before BLM had cleaned up its manifesto, my friend Fiona, a devoted grandmother, had gone to the BLM website and read the “What We Believe” page.  She wasn’t too keen on its obsession to undermine the West.  Her staff again threatened to quit if she didn’t state that her little health food store was “in solidarity” with this Marxist group and again demanded that she post a black box on the company’s Instagram account. 

It's not clear whether Fiona’s staff had read the group’s manifesto or totally understood its implications, but they were completely on board with the BLM demand to defund the police.  By so doing, these kind, gentle people were proudly feeling good doing evil, for what could be eviler than promoting a cause that ultimately ended up getting thousands killed?

They weren’t alone in this.  From Fiona’s warm-hearted health food store employees to government bureaucrats to multinational corporations to universities and even elementary schools, everyone was pushing the BLM message:  defund the police. 

Well, not everyone. 

Black people living in very poor neighborhoods where violence was already out of control long before the summer of George Floyd were begging – even crying as they begged – not to defund the police.  They were very frightened. They needed more police, they said, not less.  “I live in a dangerous neighborhood,” sobbed one young black woman to a citizen reporter on Youtube.  “Who am I going to call for help if I can’t call the police?”

Didn’t matter.  People not living in her neighborhood were feeling good insisting on a solution from which they, themselves, would face no consequences.  The story they told themselves went like this:  black neighborhoods were over-policed and unarmed black men (falsely, it turns out) get killed by police because of racism so if we just got rid of the police, bingo.  Black people will be safer. 

With police forces purposely weakened by the mobs of comfortably off white people chanting “Defund the Police!”, the 43% increase in black homicide resulted in an “extra” 2,457 dead black people – murdered almost entirely by other black people – in 2020.

This is not just a number.  These excess deaths represent 2,457 families who will never see their loved ones again and all because mostly privileged, highly educated white people unthinkingly pushed for policies that made black neighborhoods less safe.

Corporations like Bank of America jumped feet-first into the feeling good doing evil, too.  Corporate executives ever-so-proudly instituted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs complete with courses that outright lied about the foundations of the American police forces.  In a DEI course at the Bank of America, participants were told that:

Wait. 

A massive American bank pushing neo-Marxist propaganda?

Yes.

Why was the Bank of America willing to lean on the BLM narrative and lie about history? 

The American policing system – like many around the world – was built on Britain’s once world class policing system, a system that demanded police officers follow the rule of law, where no one is above the law, and where people are innocent until proven guilty.  Most notably in the British justice system, the right to be judged by a jury of one’s peers dates to the Magna Carta in 1215. 

In no way were slavery and racism “woven into the DNA” of the American police force.

More importantly, in what universe does it make sense that corporations call for the abolishment of police? Did their “feeling good doing evil” DEI statement mean that the Bank of America would now rid itself of their private security forces and keep their doors unlocked?

Of course not.

But corporate executives (largely white) and the BLM protesters (largely white) could push the neo-Marxist anti-police agenda and feel good about themselves because they would never have to face the consequences.  They could give themselves a bit of a rush by putting their fists in the air and demand weaker police forces in major cities across America, the very cities where black children are shot by stray bullets while sleeping in bed or playing on the street or, as in the case of Jaslyn Adams, while sitting in the back seat of her dad’s car at a McDonald’s drive-thru.

Jaslyn, nicknamed “Pinky,” was a 7-year-old girl shot six times in April of 2021, less than a year after the George Floyd riots. Although a police officer gathered the child up in his arms and raced her to the nearest hospital, she was pronounced dead. Pinky’s father was also badly shot but survived.

Moments after the attack, Pinky’s father, Jontae Adams, called his mother. The poor young man, once a tough guy who’d been in and out of prison because of his gang affiliations, called his mom. “They shot my baby,” he wailed. He called his mom again from the hospital. Lawanda McMullen, Pinky’s grandmother, said of her son’s call:

At the end of an invigorating night of pro-BLM pro-testing or after a day at the office approving bizarre cor-porate policies pushing neo-Marxist talking points, those mostly white and highly educated people could go back to their middleclass or even their upper middleclass homes, quite safe and feeling ever-so-good about them-selves. They likely never even heard of Pinky or her family but the evil their demands unleashed was astounding. To this day, most people I’ve met who still feel proud that they raised their fists in solidarity with the BLM movement are totally oblivious to the consequences of their support for an issue they didn’t fully think through.

And they are exceptionally ignorant of the facts that a black Harvard professor had uncovered in 2016: that American police aren’t, in fact, more likely to kill a black suspect than a white suspect. In some cities like Houston, Texas, they’re even far less likely to shoot a black suspect than a white one.

While many people felt virtuous posting black squares, the real-world consequences were far darker than most people realized. For any political demands we make, it’s important to move beyond what sounds good. It’s critical to look at facts and understand the implications of what we’re championing. During the BLM riots, we were only allowed to chant, not to question.

Chapter Two

Surfacing the Facts

"If facts hurt your feelings, you need new feelings." (Ricky Gervais)

If you were unwittingly taken in by the passion and power of the BLM movement, it’s understandable. The corporate media swept in, minimized the scale and violence of the riots, and sent a unified, BLM-inspired message about police brutality that horrified all of us. It seemed that there was only one way to look at the situation and only one response: accept that Western civilization was a cesspool of systemic racism.

But was the outrage against the police (and Western civilization in general) based on fact? Did that one incident in Minneapolis justify the blind support – including generous corporate funding – of the Black Lives Matter Movement and its demands?

It can be frightening to question the BLM “oppressor” narrative when so much of polite society married itself to the BLM cause. In 2020 and 2021, mobs of young people with fists in the air felt exceptionally good when they marched up to diners minding their own business – in New York, in Washington, D.C., in Pittsburgh – and demanded that these people chant “black lives matter” or leave the restaurant. The mobs felt justified threatening innocent people – they were on the right side of history!Or were they?

To even wonder out loud what the facts really were could make you feel vulnerable in that climate of outrage and faux justice. Even when you do have the full suite of facts to challenge the narrative, it can still be dangerous to stand your ground because in these times, if you question the message that the government, the media, and your employer are demanding you believe, you will swiftly be dismissed as racist.

Even if you’re black.

Police Brutality Facts

That’s what Roland G. Fryer, a black Harvard professor, discovered.  In 2016, long before the Summer of George Floyd, Professor Fryer set out to pull together the evidence of police brutality against black people but, to his surprise, found quite the opposite.  In his 2016 peer reviewed study titled, “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force” published by Harvard in 2017, the paper opens with:

Absolutely true.  But after decades of dealing with racism and racist policies since the time of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, what are the verifiable facts regarding today’s police force interactions with black people vs white?

For Roland Fryer, as it should be for anyone who believes in human rights for all humans, it was deeply troubling to think that police would choose to shoot an unarmed black man because of his race.  He dug deep into the question about the frequency of this abuse of power.  Fryer had initiated his peer reviewed study expecting to find racist differences in the use of deadly force by police, but he didn’t find them.  Examining 5 million police interactions in the United States across 4 datasets, his study found that while it is true that black men and women are more likely than whites to be physically manhandled by police (more often handcuffed, for example):

The data – the facts – went directly against the accepted narrative, a story that had gotten dozens of people killed during the George Floyd riots and triggered a horrific increase in the black homicide rate.  But no one wanted to look at the facts, not the legacy media, not the rioters, not the BLM leaders who were whipping up rage and righteous fury, and not multinational corporations like Coca-Cola busy rolling out DEI courses telling employees to “be less white” by being “less arrogant, less certain, less defensive, less ignorant and more humble”.

And employees were told to swallow all of this whole.

Under communism when someone doesn’t follow the politically correct way of thinking and speaking, the person is swiftly punished.  Soon after his ground-breaking study discovered facts that went against the racist police brutality narrative, Harvard Professor Fryer was punished. 

Instead of a scholarly exploration of the findings, Professor Fryer noted that people “quickly lost their minds”.  He began to get death threats. Because his study didn’t align to what the BLM movement (founded in 2013 under President Obama) had decided was true, Fryer and his family were forced to hire armed guards.  Twitter flagged his work as “hate speech”.  . . .

Here’s another very uncomfortable fact that Professor Fryer uncovered in his peer-reviewed study:

Although they are only 6 percent of the U.S. population, black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade.

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Chapter Three

Echoes of Evil Past

"Markets don’t like uncertainty.  Markets like totalitarian governments … and democracies are very messy, as we know in the United States — you have opinions changing back and forth." (Larry Fink, CEO BlackRock and Co-Chair of World Economic Forum) [emphasis added]

 You might think that communism and corporations are like oil and water because communism claims to care about people and corporations care about money.  You’d be wrong.  Both communism and multinational corporations care about power.  Both communism and multinational corporations abhor the nation-state and look to a global world order.  Both communism and multinational corporations demand that people think and act and speak in a certain, precise way.

If communism cared about people, communists would not have starved to death and murdered more children, women, and men than WWI and WWII combined. 

In a 2017 Wall Street Journal article titled, “100 Years of Communism – 100 Million Dead”, David Statter wrote, “The Bolshevik plague that began in Russia was the great-est catastrophe in human history” and “set in motion a chain of events that would kill millions and inflict a near-fatal wound on Western civilization.”

Today, our lives are not being threatened by a Hitler- or Stalin-like maniac. Instead, our lives are threatened by a menacing globalist agenda pushed by the megarich and multinationals which the mainstream media doesn’t ques-tion. With the help of politicians who now routinely do their bidding, they have inflicted a near-fatal wound on Western civilization.

When I speak of “they”, I am not speaking of a secret cabal of billionaires who have set out a strategy to undermine the West. I’m referring to a global capitalist power system that interferes with and disrupts our democracies. Since the 1980s, this power system has been successfully inserting itself between citizens and our elected representatives. As the writer, C. J. Hopkins framed the problem, we are faced with a network of power that operates through interlocking institutions across multiple sectors. It is a:

The biggest asset this power network has at its disposal is us, our gullibility and willingness to believe whatever their corporate PR machines demand – as long as what they say sounds nice.  It is very easy to get us feeling good doing evil because the global power structures frame what they want to do as saving the planet and helping the “marginalized” and global poor. 

And because banks and multinationals and NGOs (often funded by billionaires) have so many employees and because governments and the education system have a huge managerial class, they have a ready and all-too-willing army of do-gooders at their beck and call.  They train their staff on corporate “values” and the very middle class under assault within corporate communism power the force that is undermining their way of life.

Modern corporate rhetoric sounds lovely if you don’t look too deep. Their climate claims mask the fact that while multinationals and our own governments are busy de-industrializing the West for the benefit of Wall Street, global carbon emissions are soaring.  Adopting quasi-Marxist cultural tools (identity over class, equity over merit, having our rights negated for the benefit of others), we discover that if we speak out against the cultural norms pushed at us from above (and now, from all sides) we are punished. 

What’s worse is that many people don’t question at all.  Instead, they join hands with the corporate elite and don’t notice the feigned benevolence and hypocrisy of a globalist, “humanity-first” ideology that further empowers the already powerful. 

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