Katrina Trinko / @KatrinaTrinko / / 147 comments
When it comes to religious liberty debates, big businesses don’t want the people to decide.
Or at least they don’t want the people of Missouri to decide. While the more explosive battles in Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina about bills regarding religious liberty and LGBT accommodations have gained national attention, Missouri has flown mostly under the radar.
Perhaps it was because Missouri was debating a bill that, if passed, would have gone to the people to vote on, not the governor’s desk. Since the Supreme Court handed down its decision mandating all states recognize same-sex marriages as legal—a decision that directly went against what Americans in 31 states voted for in the years before, namely that marriage should exist solely between a man and a woman—there has been no statewide vote on religious liberty, at least that I’m aware of.....To Read More
My Take - Let's try and get some clarity on this issue. Big business isn't conservative, liberal or anything other that greedy....and that's ok with me. Just so long as we know and understand as allies these people are are leaky vessels at best! At worst they will sell you down the road just as pesticide producing companies have done to the structural pest control industry over the years. Big business is run by bean counters, not visionaries. Visionaries started these companies and then retired or died - then Harvard Economics Whiz Kids take over. They can tell you the bottom line on anything, but they don't understand anything. These Rehoboams think because they understand the numbers they understand the industries they're running. It's the old Robert McNamara - Lee Iacocca story. McNamara was called the "The Father of the Ford Falcon". He looked over the American automobile scene and decided America needed a good medium sized inexpensive car. When asked: “Do you want a soft car, a hot, sexy car, a comfortable car, a car for the young, or a car for the middle class? Whose car is it, what does it feel like?” "McNamara had not considered that factor."
New we have to understand in one aspect he was right - Ford sold a ton of Falcons - but people hated them! The handling was only ok and the design was stinko - eventually dooming the Falcon. On the other hand - Lee Iacocca, who actually understood America's love for the automobile, created the Mustang - which was nothing more than a Falcon with different styling - and it's still being produced. McNamara understood numbers. Iacocca understood automobiles. That's the pattern in Big Business - Too many Whiz Kids - Too few visionaries.
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