Of course there are.
The following dataset isn’t a list of political affiliation of businessowners by business type, but Verdant Labs did a study on the relative political affiliations of professions, which may provide context about the political leanings of those who start businesses within those professions.
Well, I’m sure there are some, but my point was that if you were to boycott all businesses that supported Republicans, you’d have difficulty functioning in society.
Your chart seems to refer to individuals who are employed in those occupations, not the employers.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/01/politics/democratic-billionaire-donors/index.html
Actually, about half of big time businessmen support the Dems, altho many businesses give to both.
Of course the issue isnt to boycott the company that writes a modest check, it’s to get at the big million $ donors.
Could we just agree to boycott all businesses that support Trump?
You cant and wont. And a lot of businesses write checks to both sides.
But you can boycott the big spenders. Major supporters.
Because I’m always interested in getting more votes for my poll:
Do you prefer to use businesses whose political views match yours?
Yep.
Biden’s stumbles and Warren’s rise are making me much less confident in my No vote, which I guess means it’s really a tie.
I feel a duty to try to push people towards more electable options, but if at some point it becomes clear that one of those two is sure to win the nomination, I will probably have to cross my fingers, give a few bucks to the DNC, and quit cold turkey again* on all political news until 11/4/20. I just can’t bear to spend months watching a needlessly weak nominee try ineffectually to fight day in and day out against the worst president in American history.
*Twice, for the better part of a year each time, I cut all political news out of my perception. The first was after Bush’s reelection in 2004, and the second was after Trump’s election. This time I could easily see myself going from spring 2020 to when primary season starts again in 2023, other than that quick check to see if hopefully Trump still lost even against a weak Democratic nominee.
‘He gets it’: Evangelicals aren’t turned off by Trump’s first term
Not that Donald actually believes any of this stuff. He has no beliefs or principles except self-promotion. It’s all for votes. If the biggest, loudest voting block was pro-abortion–not just pro-CHOICE, but actually promoting abortion as the first choice for birth control-- he’d not only be for it, he’d figure out a way to slap the Trump brand on it and put Ivanka in charge, so he could make money.
I agree that Evangelicals like Trump’s in-your-face warrior style, but analysts are missing the importance of their transactional relationship. They know that Trump is absolutely not a Christian or anything close to a true believer in Jesus, but it doesn’t matter. What matters for Evangelicals is similar to what matters to oligarchs who want their tax cuts and similar to what matters to white nationalists who want policies of bigotry: he delivers the goods. And if he can’t do it through legislation, he can do it with executive orders, court fights, or by simply tilting administrative power where it favors the cause and refusing to enforce laws when it doesn’t. Trump says fuck the process and fuck the system, and they love it because it has immediate impact.
And in addition to that, I think some of these people just enjoy seeing people writhe in pain, as it makes themselves feel more powerful.
There’s a story told about Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. Grant was known as a drunk and at various times people urged Lincoln to replace him. Despite Grant’s failings, Lincoln stuck by his choice of commanders with the phrase “I can’t spare this man; he fights.” President Trump fights too.
Lol, no. I fight. He whines.
On the occasions when he actually “fights” rather than whining or capitulating, Trump fights hardest against brown and black people. That’s he came to prominence in politics – birtherism. That’s how he won the Republican primary – by slandering migrants, Mexicans, and Muslims.
I recall a saying (paraphrased) that everyone wants someone who says out loud what they are thinking deep down in private. Trump did that for many evangelicals.
White conservatives identify with his bullying because many of them are either bullies themselves, already having positions of power - or they want to become bullies and seek opportunities to take their frustrations out on more vulnerable people.
I can’t find a cite right now, but this is very similar to what I once read about Reinhard Heydrich - that he would have been a great champion and protector of the Jews if that’s what Himmler and Hitler had wanted. All that mattered to him was winning their admiration and being known as someone who gets things done and being seen as a success. Extermination, protection, whatever it took.
Yes, Trump punches down and always has. But American evangelicals see themselves as a minority under attack in a nation growing more secular and more socially tolerant by the day. Donald is their Champion standing up to the unchurched leftists who allow abortions and same sex marriages and who pollute the television airwaves with their messages of equality and tolerance.
It is a constant source of wonderment to me that so many evangelicals can be so kind and generous on a personal level yet so intolerant of people outside what they consider mainstream culture.
I could see a Republican Congress passing some anti-abortion bill. It goes to Donald’s desk and his secretary says “The abortion bill is on your desk”, to which he would say “I thought I already paid it”.
I don’t buy that they see themselves as under attack; I see it more as frustration that they’re losing influence, which is what religion has always been about since the first day the first religion or spiritual group was founded in human history. Religion serves as a social structure. I’m not one of those who says “fuck religion, it all sucks” but there’s no denying that the implicit nature of religion is that it seeks to influence people and form a community according to a set of philosophical principles. Some groups are premised on principles of flexibility, individuality, choice, and tolerance, but Evangelical faiths are not like that.
Trump is popular with Evangelicals because he is an authoritarian, just like they are also authoritarians. Moreover, they like him because he is not just telling them they’re not wrong for being authoritarian, but he’s green-lighting religiously-inspired aggression against competing faiths, against those without faith, and against secular institutions. The Courts, the IRS, academic interpretations of the constitution, and many individual figures in mainstream society have critiqued the Evangelicals and advocated curbing their power. He’s unchaining them and letting those dogs run wild.
These two things often go hand in hand. They’re not contradictory at all.
Also, plenty do feel attacked, or promote the view that Christians are attacked. Some sources:
Vox article: Mike Pence tells graduates to be prepared to face attacks
CNN article: White evangelicals feel that Christian values are under attack