> Back in the day we had the giant amoral corporations and the social justice advocates and they would duke it out in the political arena. The public would bala

> Back in the day we had the giant amoral corporations and the social justice advocates and they would duke it out in the political arena. The public would balance the benefits of corporations (jobs, more stuff, etc.) against social justice and distributional concerns. But today, the giant amoral corporations have coopted political movements for social justice by pretending to join them. I don't think it has ever been different. Corporations don't care about much that doesn't hurt their bottom line. They just care about positive PR and to achieve that they side with whatever team that seems to be winning right now. A lot of the companies preaching wokeness now have supported fascists in the past and most of them would probably do it again, it just depends on what's popular. > Ideas that had been the stock and trade of liberals, like opposing racism, have been redefined and redeployed to stifle opposition to globalism and giving away the store to China. You have a corporate party and a corporate party. Typical left-wing ideas have been hollowed out by the democratic party as a nice paint on their corporate agenda, with the same motivation as described above. The republicans do the same thing, but with xenophobia. Your comment sounds defeatist, like them doing that ruins something. They may be trying to redefine meanings, but pointing that out and standing for the original ones is both possible and effective.