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I owned a couple of small businesses and never saw the point of taking sides on political issues. Personally, of course, but not the business or myself when representing the business., which includes my personal facebook account which had 2,500 people from an industry I was in. Prospective or current customers weren't looking to the companies for political advice... they wanted us to do our jobs for them. From a practical level it seemed like taking a stand on divisive issues would lose us more customers than we'd gain.
I think it's a different situation when the company is a big company.
Example, I like knowing my grocery store is trying to use sustainable food procurement practices.
I don't really care about my grocery store having an opinion on gun rights other than to say "don't fucking use it in the store"
That's the thing though, it's almost never relevant. I don't care what Budweiser thinks about the LGBTQ community. It makes no difference if Target supports abortion rights or not. These things are entirely divorced from the business these companies are trying to carry out and yet they take up a sizable chunk of public discourse and advertising space.
Politics taking over every aspect of culture is insufferable and this seems like a great place to start when it comes to making politics less combative. Let's stop making a taco purchase a political statement.
I would feel the exact same way, but there is one thing stopping me. These companies then use my money (and others) to fund super pac's to lobby congress and buy politicians to enact legislative I think is morally and socially bankrupt. When companies can no longer do this, I think that's the day business becomes less political.