I might still be a Democrat if the Democrats were about what Ryan was talking about there and they threw the Woke and Intersectionalist garbage into the Dumpster Fire where it belongs.
Of course, the Woke and Intersectionalist garbage is to avoid the issues of income inequality. Without formally announcing it, the Democrats have become the party of Big Business. It's a shock to me, but if people are honest about it, they'll see that it's the case.
Every single Democrat, minus one, voted for this bill.
Every single Republican, minus five, voted against it.
This bill is literally trying to undo things that state-level Republicans have been doing in this country for decades. Things that they've run promising to do, and then gotten re-elected by touting.
Like, there isn't some secret you have to uncover here. There's not some hidden agenda of the two parties where actually they have the reverse of their public positions. One party is pro-worker, the other is anti-worker. That doesn't mean the Democrats are anti-business. They are just capable of balancing the two competing interests for the greater good, while Republicans had complete control of government for two years and didn't lift a finger to help workers beyond some half-baked tariffs that actually hurt workers.
I think there is no question the Democrats would like the support of especially big business, but with some exceptions like on corporate taxes perhaps, Democrats want it on their terms. I think they're leaving it up to organizations like the National Chamber of Commerce to decide whether they'd rather back the Democrats or the extremism of the Republicans.
There are a number of what I consider as 'good government' pro-business Democratic states. Washington State, Delaware, Virginia and Colorado are four of those states, I think. What they have in common is they are fairly heavily to heavily suburban states. In those states, Democrats have largely left the tax structures on corporate and income taxes alone, I believe, but they haven't been pro corporation at the expense of the worker or the public at large either.
What Democrats generally want in regards to corporate regulation here, is most often used with the example of fishing: when one person overfishes, it doesn't have a negative impact. The problem is, it's in every fisher's individual interest to overfish. However, collectively, in a short period of time, they're all going to lose.
This is partially often referred to as The Tragedy of the Commons
https://towardsdatascience.com/individual-gain-vs-the-common-good-tragedy-of-the-commons-with-ai-players-77ffb40f0c6aThe biggest example, I think, of this in recent years has been how the gains from free trade agreements were divided. Every corporation, seemingly believing they were the only corporation to act this way, shared their gains mostly entirely with their top executives and shareholders. The result was, as we seemingly know, the average worker did not gain from free trade, but only saw a seeming decline in job security from the increased competition. This, in the end, poisoned the well of public support for free trade.
In short, whereas a Republican still tells business that 'what's good for General Motors is Good for America' Democrats are far more likely to tell businesses 'there are times where your excesses need to be reigned in, and, if you support us, that's what we're going to try to do. But, in the long run, you and most Americans will be better off for it.'
