by #LukeSavage in #Jacobin:

"[M]uch of what corporate America has done over the past decade or so to align itself with the language and iconography of social justice has been more a result of cold market calculus than anything more durable or sincere. With increasing numbers of Americans supporting LGBTQ rights and recognizing the systemic injustice facing black people, boardrooms and marketing teams clearly recognized the trend and airbrushed their branding accordingly. Greeted, as they have been more recently, by organized hostility by a small but vocal and mobilized right-wing minority to such branding, many have relented at breathtaking speed — evidently preferring to cave under pressure than risk alienating any section of their consumer base."

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/bud-light-target-starbucks-lgbtq-boycotts-right-wing

#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #BudLight #Target #Starbucks #boycotts #RightWing

by #LukeSavage in #Jacobin:

"Either way, the whole debate is absurd. Democrats went hard on voter shaming in 2016 and, if it actually worked as a tactic, the former host of TV’s The Apprentice would definitely never have been elected president. Regardless, the very idea of embracing chastisement as a tactic at all speaks to both a much deeper problem with how certain liberals have come to conceive politics, and the wider attitude of contempt liberal elites have developed for the very electorate whose votes they are ostensibly seeking.

"In the political cosmology of something that calls itself the 'Democratic Party,' it is now a widespread belief that support is owed from below rather than earned from above. Instead of building popular coalitions by seeking to represent the hopes, dreams, and interests of a democratic majority, a posture of absolute, uncritical deference toward elite politicians is presumed to be axiomatic — even when an election is still well over a year away."

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/voter-shaming-liberal-elite-biden-reelection-2024-third-parties

#voting #elections #democracy

"In the political cosmology of something that calls itself the '#DemocraticParty,' it is now a widespread belief that support is owed from below rather than earned from above. Instead of building popular coalitions by seeking to represent the hopes, dreams, and interests of a democratic majority, a posture of absolute, uncritical deference toward elite politicians is presumed to be axiomatic."

-#LukeSavage

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/voter-shaming-liberal-elite-biden-reelection-2024-third-parties/

#elections #PoliticalScience

[Railroad] workers are “fighting for the basic right to be able to be people outside of the railroad.”

https://jacobin.com/2022/11/rail-workers-strike-biden-pelosi-impose-contract

#RailroadWorkers
#union
#LukeSavage in #Jacobin