Go woke, go broke... poll shows

Most want businesses to stay out of politics

Survey results reveal that 78.8% of voters are more likely to do business with a company that stayed politically neutral and tolerated viewpoints of employees and customers across the board; 10.1% of voters were less likely to do business with such a company.

Among independent voters, 77.1% say they are more likely to do business with a company that stayed politically neutral and tolerated viewpoints of employees and customers across the board.

The bigger problem here are that there are literally companies out there who don't give the first hoot about making money. Especially those publicly traded companies where the board and CEO have little skin in the game. Used to be that stock options and such were a thing to entice a financially successful business decisions. Now you have people with no financial ties to the company that they run and very little regards for the shareholders who do own the company. Or you have the ultra-rich owner who doesn't have any issue losing millions or even billions. The fact that none of their customers want to hear their personal politics or that pushing their personal politics will lose the company money isn't as important to them as pushing their personal politics.

At the end of the day there is only so much you can do. The threats of a lawsuit over fiducial responsibility to the shareholders was the only thing that pushed the Twitter leadership to sell to Musk. If not for that threat, there is little doubt that they would have continued to turn down Musk's advances so they could continue on their merry way of pushing personal politics and following the marching orders of Democrats in our Government. Otherwise, the ideals are out in the open to be judged. At one time they seemed to want to deny that they were injecting politics into business decisions, but now they simply admit it and suggest it is the right thing to do.

Most conservatives who run businesses do not push politics, as conservatives respect overall disagreement and don't really want to use a business to push politics. More to the point, they want to make money. Some will point to religious businesses respecting religious principals (closing on Sundays, etc...) as an example. But these sorts of businesses are not pushing religious advertising or suggesting that you have to be religious to do business with them. They are not banning non-Christians from their business and they are not shaming people they disagree with. These are also always private owned businesses. No religious person has taken over a public company and imposed religion on the business model.

At the end of the day, this too will pass. Eventually these things have way of sorting themselves out. Twitter, Disney, NFL, Gillette, and others have all suffered financially because they pushed politics. These companies are trying to get out of that mindset and back into running a business like a business. Those who have, have made a comeback. Those who do not.... well... good luck. The time for injecting your politics and being praised is over. The time of the politically neutral public world is coming back around.