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Rasmussen has a poll. Fifty-eight percent of people polled consider it important that a company shares their social and political values, including 28 percent who think it's very important. This feels like a big problem. Now even though most people, the vast majority according to the Rasmussen poll, most people think that the product is the most important thing, right? So most people say yeah, it's the product. Oh yeah, 28 percent is very close to one quarter. It's very close to one quarter.
Yes, I saw the Trump retweet of my endorsement on Truth. That was cool.
So anyway, here's my question. As we become more woke and when people are putting more pressure on companies to do stuff, don't you think we almost need a new constitutional amendment? Because aren't we all better off if the government and religion are separate? Well, wasn't that one of the smartest things that we... oh, you say no? Well, I mean the Constitution is based on a sort of a Christian bias, if you can say that. So I suppose you could say that in some ways it is a religious document. They just have some walls that say don't get your religion in with the workings of the government. Now I think that's worked. I think that's worked. But I wonder if we should do the same thing for business.
Don't you think the worst thing you could do to the economy of a country is mix your politics with the business? Because we already have laws, right? If the companies are following the laws, I feel like I'm done. I mean, I can have my opinion and stuff, but I don't want my opinion to put them out of business if they're following the law. Now I might want to change the law. That's a thing I can see that. I might want to ban some companies that are especially bad. But should we really be trying to micromanage companies? That feels like the worst thing you can do. I almost think we need some kind of standard to keep our business out of it.
Now I do like transparency. So to the extent that the external pressure causes them to be more transparent, that's probably good. But I feel like there's a better way to get there. So I don't like having more government regulations, but separating religion from government I think worked. And now we might at least think about it for separating politics and business because it's just crushing businesses. Am I wrong about that? Isn't the politics of it just crushing businesses that didn't need to get crushed?
Now they should also stay out of it. So if you've made an argument that says well if Disney, for example, decides to enter a political argument, well then maybe they're putting themselves out there for a little pushback. But if they're minding their own business and obeying all the laws, I think we should stay away from them. Let them do what they want. But you know it would probably help the businesses to make it illegal. It would probably be a boon to business, wouldn't it?
Because let's say you're the CEO and your customers and your employees and stockholders are all y
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ammering at you, hey be more woke or be more political or say something about climate change. What's the CEO going to do? Pretty much bow to the pressure, right? But what if the CEO had backing, a law, and the law said you can't speak out as a company on a political item. You can speak out personally, of course, but companies can't have opinions. How about that? Companies can't have political opin…
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