ActiCons

I can remember when the corporate world used to be scared of Us.

You know, Us. The slumbering majority in this country that doesn’t want to see salaciousness enshrined, moral relativity championed, marriage cheapened and redefined, and abortion paid for with our tax dollars. We went quietly about our business, went to church, shared a sense of pride in our community and country.

And they were afraid of Us. You know, the corporations who lived and died on our purchasing money. Whatever the people who ran these companies might have believed on a personal level, they did not dare to take our money and use it to collaborate with those who were fighting against everything we believed in.

But somewhere along the line, they stopped being scared. Somewhere along the line they got the idea that they could get away with selling us cheeseburgers with half-naked car wash scenes, putting underage models in inappropriate clothing, and using their corporate brands to promote pro-abortion causes. Hollywood actors and entertainers now feel free to use their influence to support the most ludicrous, culture-destroying causes imaginable.

And you know what? They are right not to be scared of Us anymore. No one is organizing outside of Carl’s Jr. or boycotting their (terrible) cheeseburgers. Abercrombie and Fitch is not going out of business because parents aren’t taking their teens to shop there anymore. We’re not giving up Starbucks coffee because darnit, they’re too good to quit. And perish the thought of boycotting even the most mildly entertaining TV show much less their advertisers. We have become fat. Complacent. Unwilling to forego the most trivial convenience even in the knowledge that the proceeds from that convenience will be used directly against the fabric of our society. Somewhere along the line we stopped caring whether we paid for the bullets the other side in the war wanted to shoot at us.

You know who they are scared of? They’re scared of the anti Prop-8 protesters. They’re scared of PETA and Greenpeace. They’re scared of crooked union thugs. They’re scared of EMILY’s List. Because if you’re a corporation, *these* are the people who are now committed to making your life (and your balance sheet) a living hell if you step off the reservation. And by “step off the reservation” they mean “take a stance in support of any truth that has been part of the accepted fabric of this country for the first 200 years of its existence.” In addition to despicable terror tactics and thuggery, *those* people are still concerned with hitting corporations in the pocketbook to make sure that corporations are subservient to them, not the other way around.

Corporations are no more powerful than they have ever been. They still have fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders, which means their bottom line. The problem is that we’ve allowed our perspective to be turned around; we’ve become infected with Democratic agitprop that has led us to subconsciously accept that the corporations are in charge, and that we are helpless consumers whose choices don’t ultimately matter in the grand scheme of things; just a drop in an endless ocean of their indifference.

Interestingly, the left is now the side that’s proving that’s a lie. Sadly, we seem to have ceded this particular battlefield without even much of a fight. We’d better make the decision to reverse this trend and force the corporations back at the very least to neutral ground, or we risk a scenario when all the means of mass dissemination of information and culture will be completely dominated by a segment of the population that hates everything America has stood for. And if you think America herself can survive that, you are very much mistaken.