Big tech, like high finance, is a Democrat aligned industry. Big Oil is a Republican aligned industry.
Leftists are anti-corporate power in the public sphere.
None of this is paradoxical.
Leftists are anti-corporate power in the public sphere.
None of this is paradoxical.
So called "pinkwashing" is well known among leftist circles so to suggest that entire political spectrum has been hoodwinked by American corporations seems wrong?
The real answer is just that the Left isn't particularly powerful in the US, even during the WTO protests.
There's always the mistake of assuming the person means the US Left as opposed to another country's Left movement, but the Left as understood within the US is quite powerful. It seems really as if both movements divide the country in two.