In truth, it is less of a calculation and more like a smoke screen that far too many people have been willing to destroy their lungs by breathing in.
Okay, I promised myself that I would not travel down this rabbit hole again, especially since I’ve spent the better part of the past week cathartically expressing anger and disappointment on social media and my other blog(s). So, I suppose all I will say is that I’m exhausted and wash my hands of the “it-really-wasn’t-that-many, not-all-Trump-Supporters, it-is-better-to-censure-than-impeach, well-what-about-this-summer,” crowd.
This “let’s move on” attitude is also clearly evident in the American business sphere as companies are (finally) distancing themselves from last Wednesday’s terrorist violence and by extension, President Trump. But explained by former Goldman Sachs CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, even though industry captains were upwind, not everyone dismissed the rot in Demark:
“For Wall Street, it was lower taxes, less regulation. He was delivering what ‘we’ wanted. We put a clothespin on our nose. We weren’t ignorant of the kind of risks we were taking. We [just] repressed them.”
And unfortunately, despite what they knew to be true, few private business leaders publicly expressed any sort of criticism or crisis of conscience until the inevitable writing was already scrawled across the bloody wall. For instance, Although having had years of service violations from which to choose, social media companies decided that at the eleventh hour, suspending the President from their platforms permanently was the righteous and responsible move.
Now in fairness, for as limp and late as I found these responses to be, when a sitting President of the United States incites terrorists to commit riotous criminality, preempting future attempts to amplify more calls for violence would seem like a no brainer (here’s looking at you Mitch McConnell). Which was why; when angry, 280-character typing micro-bloggers took their talents to Parler to further perpetuate the President’s treasonous message (only for the site to be cut-off from Amazon’s Web Service) it was shocking to hear CEO John Matze describe it as a “coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the marketplace.”
Because apparently, alleging that the parrying and thrusting that so many social media companies have done this week to thwart further acts of domestic terrorism is as egregious as the actual killing of the five people overrode by the deadliness of apathy and white supremacy in this country.
Y’all, I can’t.
