DeSantis Says ESG Advances Ideas of Unelected Elites at Expense of “We the People”

ESG isn’t just bad for your pension and retirement accounts, it’s also a way for liberal elites to circumvent the Constitution and rob the American people of their ability to govern their country, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned Monday.

“I don’t know where this stuff comes from – but, these elites grab it and they really want to impose it on the rest of us,” Gov. DeSantis said a press event where he described the dangers of ESG: “It’s called environmental, social, governance (ESG) – but, basically, what it’s devolved into is a mechanism to inject political ideology into investment decisions, corporate governance and, really, just the everyday economy.

“That is not, ultimately, something that’s going to work out well for us here in Florida or in the United States of America. There isn’t much support among the average citizen for this.

“I think this is something where you have a lot of folks, not just in the United States, but internationally, sometimes they convene in places like Davos, and they have these ideas to try to do this.”

ESG harms Americans by slowing domestic energy production and preventing investment in profitable industries that are not preferred by the ESG Elites (Gov. DeSantis explained.

So-called “Banks” have begun to employ these so-called “Social Credit Scores” DeSantis stated that companies that provide services for U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement are not allowed to refuse services, as the ESG ideology prohibits.

“What they’re doing is they’re ranking you about what you’re doing to basically conform your behavior to their ideological imperatives. And, that’s not acceptable,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis explained that ESG is fundamentally a violation of the Constitution. This allows ESG Elites to ignore public will.

“Their targets always seem to be – and I haven’t seen an example where it’s not – they always seem to be those people who are disfavored by the jet-setters in places like Davos: Second Amendment advocates, people involved in the production of domestic energy.”

“So, that is using your economic power to advance a political agenda. Now, this is something that is very serious, because I think the policies are bad, I think having a politicized economy is not the way that you want to go,” DeSantis said.

Gov. DeSantis stated that ESG also perverts how the U.S. government is run:

“Our Constitution says We-The-People govern – through elections and different houses of the legislature, executive, and you can kind of arrive at policy. It is up to the people to evaluate it. They have the option to vote for another person in future elections.

“Well, what ESG does, and when you have major asset managers and these international folks and folks in these big Wall Street banks, they just want to do an end-run around that.”

ESG Elites want to mandate their policies, without having to gain the approval of We-The-People – because the American public would never condone them – DeSantis explained:

“They don’t want to have to worry about winning elections. They could not win support from the American public with many of the policies that they pursue. I mean, abolish ICE? Saying that you should have an open border and that it’s, somehow, wrong to be involved in immigration enforcement? It would be a terrible idea. However, they do it.

“So, this is a distortion of a government of, by and for The People.

“They are not accountable to you. They are not accountable to us. And, I think, ultimately, it does represent a threat, not just to a smooth and prosperous economy – a smooth, functioning prosperous economy – but also our very freedom itself.”

During his remarks, Gov. DeSantis declared to legislation “protect Floridians from the woke ESG financial scam.”

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