Agent Smith (the Wachowskis) had us dead to rights.
We are a macro cancer of the natural world. You can point to our supposed good works, but from the perspective of most surface life, well... the surface life we haven't yet exterminated in the name of glorious economic metastasis, we are a fucking plague.
Metastatic tumors refuse to stop too. It's in their nature.
I find consolation in knowing we aren't the first macro cancer Earth has survived, see the trees of the carboniferous period, and life will survive our species' very loud, eager murder suicide.
Corporations, especially publicly traded corporations are amoral. Sociopaths. If they could make moar money murdering you painfully, they would every time.
When they give to charity, they donate 100k to the charity and spend 3 million advertising they gave 100k to charity, as it's a marketing ploy.
They don't see poors as human, regardless of identity, you are livestock to them. I like my sociopath capitalists out in the open. They're even more dangerous when they convince you they have basic decency. They don't. Sell your products and services, if I absolutely need it, I'll buy it, if I don't I won't.
But we're half a century past the point of pretending the relationship between the oligarch capitalists and their labor consumers is a cordial, or even respectful one. I've long considered these campaigns to be patronizing to a cartoonish degree. They never gave a shit about trans or LGBT who aren't also affluent. They also don't care about the hate speech they're condoning, they just put on whatever false face they believe will maximize profit.
It doesn't have to be like this, but this is what our economy rewards, sociopathic greed. We'd have to change the shape and priorities of our economy to reward prosocial behaviors and vocations, and punish individualistic greed based vocations, if we wanted that to change. That would require painful revolution as our government is completely captured, and we're sadly too chickenshit.
Surely the Neoliberals next signature piece of legislation they won't shut up about for decades as a "victory" won't be a heritage foundation created plot to further enshrine for profit insurance leeches into healthcare! Hopefully!
I wonder how they'll move to the right next cycle. "OK ok, we now support the death camps, but God damn it, line in the sand, those death Camps will have Taco Tuesdays! Vote Blue no matter who!"
I know it's decades too late, but it's still cathartic to finally see a lot of people waking up to the neolib/Republican good cop/bad cop con job routine warring over social wedges as they rob us blind since Reagan.
This country was dying before Reagan from our greed disease, and his administration killed any hope it had left. We need a new framework, this one is necrotic.
Revolution! Pain for us means a future for our children they currently don't have. Not a life worth living anyway.
Nah, they need brood mares. Once they come for the other scapegoat groups in order of size from smallest to largest, then they'll take the women's autonomy, demote their tokens back to nothing, and make women second class citizens again, treated as children under the "care" of their fathers, husbands, and brothers.
That's the fascist playbook, you don't start with half the population, too much pushback. You pick off any potential resistance in order of the weakest, smallest groups first. It warms up their lynch mob and gets them into "git em" training with those that mob is least likely to have an "well I know some good ones I'm out" reaction.
If Republicans had their way, she'd be making the men in her party sandwiches and otherwise staying silent.
Women, racial minorities, and log cabin Republicans are a special kind of "do you know who you're standing with?" oddity.
But then again Jews for Nazism(Association of German National Jews) were a thing too, until they'd outlived their usefulness as misleading tokens and it was their turn for a train ride and suddenly they weren't.
This was the point of the Reagan Revolution, the trickle down economics con, and the federalist society takeover that began under Reagan.
The owners spent decades removing accountability from the owners and any hope for accountability's return under the current completely captured, warped, and owned constitutional framework.
There's no voting our way out of this greed prison, as they own both major parties since Reagan. Want a just society? Move to a nation our government hasn't yet coerced into becoming as bad as us, or help foment L style revolution for a new constitution and nation, this one is too captured for any rational hope.
Unless you think continuing to play this game will lead to a just society. Neoliberals are just the "good cop" in our illusion of choice. We have no vote on the shape or priorities of the economy we live in servitude of, only the social wedges the owners sow division amplifying with for profit media and captured political bully pulpits. "You hate them for being different! They hate you for being different! Fight! Don't look up!"