Well, the Supreme Court finally reversed the silly, convoluted jurisprudence of Roe/Bolton/Casey. The claptrap joined the ash heap of history with the Dred Scott decision, fascism, the USSR, and disco fashions. Or has it, and they? These things are the closest to vampires that reality has produced. They never really die.
And corporate America is in a fever over Dobbs. Many have instantly proclaimed their Planned Parenthood bona fides. Tucker Carlson of the Fox News commentariat puts the blame on corporate greed: corporations hate families because they get in the way of the wage slaves’ total commitment to the firm. Besides sounding like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and The Squad, he is as wrong as they are. The c-suite may be ambivalent about marriage and kids, but their wokeness has been evident for years. Remember their real and metaphorical kneeling after George Floyd, their donations to BLM Inc., their growing tendency to funnel streams of cash to the Democratic Party, Zuckerbucks, their support for woke indoctrination, and their campaigns against election integrity laws? It could be the equivalent of political ransom money pioneered by the Mob and Jesse Jackson, but I doubt it. There appears to be not a scintilla of worry over a backlash from at least half the country. Where’s the greed interest in that, unless the corporate mavens are completely unaware?
These latest unvarnished declarations on the Dobbs decision are rooted in something else. The explanation can be found in the fact the c-suite has more in common with the college faculty lounge than the lives of everyone underneath their self-declared status level. Indeed, they aren’t likely to be aware of a different and prevalent perspective because they never see anyone with one. Charles Murray has written extensively on the “super zips” and their increasing self-isolation from the rest of the country. For the denizens of the super zips (as in super-wealthy zip codes), mostly metropolitan, the ladies of The View reflect a national consensus. To put it bluntly, the c-suite is as cocooned as the Duchess of Sussex (Meghan Markle).
How else can one explain the lurch of Disney to protest laws that protect 7-year-olds from sexualized instruction in the rudiments of gay sex? The Mouse and sodomy? It’s jaw-dropping . . . unless one’s social universe is limited to conversations populated with progressive clichés.
How else to explain Delta and American Airlines, Coca-Cola, MLB, and a raft of others opposing wildly popular laws that do nothing but protect elections from fraud? What’s wrong with measures that ensure a vote of the people is actually a vote of the people? In the cloistered world of high-end gated communities, elite prep schools, the Ivy League, and business-class air travel, the air is thick in unchallenged lefty banalities.
So, Dobbs is seen in the silk-stocking enclaves as just another revolt of the rubes, people whose crudity in the eyes of their “betters” discounts their opinions. These aristocratic prejudices emanate from stupidity immersed in ignorance. Their social isolation leads the c-suite into minefields.
Thus, following the mental script of their isolated social world, ending a pregnancy isn’t much different from removing a hang nail. If their employees want to end the life of the baby within, Disney pledges to foot the employee’s bill for abortion shopping around the country.
Speaking of shopping, depending on the consumer’s choice, never before has the purchase of goods and services been so closely tied to something two-thirds of the American public finds abhorrent. A trip to Disney World now constitutes an unwitting consumer subsidy of abortion. How could a good Catholic ever again by a ticket to the Magic Kingdom for their kids? The parishioner would be compromised in taking communion.
The progressive activism doesn’t end with Disney. Paramount, Meta, Warner Bros., and Netflix announced their abortion subsidy. Uber, Lyft, and Apple are likely to follow suit.
Dick’s Sporting Goods earlier joined the “assault weapon” crusade. Now, they expressed their financial fealty to employee abortions. Think about that when shopping for Little League equipment. If they get their way, future Little Leagues would be a lot smaller. One would think that a different tack would do better to fatten the bottom line.
Amazon is fully onboard to the tune of $4,000 in travel expenses for an employee to find an abortionist or mutilate their bodies in sex-change therapies and surgeries. The progressive-industrial-complex is brought to you by the costumers of Amazon, Citibank, Uber, and the complex’s abettors in the related entertainment-industrial-complex. All of them managed by mentalities from out-of-touch secular monasteries.
Dobbs vs. corporate America is essentially flyover country vs. corporate America.
RogerG