{"id":1107021,"date":"2021-12-10T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1107021"},"modified":"2021-12-10T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:28:49","slug":"woke-inc-author-new-leviathan-uses-cronyism-2-0-to-backdoor-woke-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-inc-author-new-leviathan-uses-cronyism-2-0-to-backdoor-woke-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Woke, Inc.&#039; Author: New &#039;Leviathan&#039; Uses &#039;Cronyism 2.0&#039; to Backdoor Woke Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoke-inc-author-new-leviathan-uses-cronyism-2-0-to-backdoor-woke-agenda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1107021&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Vivek Ramaswamy, author of&nbsp;<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Woke-Inc-Corporate-Americas-Justice\/dp\/1546090789?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America\u2019s Social Justice Scam<\/a><\/em>, explained how the \u201cwoke industrial complex\u201d allows government to circumvent constitutional restraints on its power via co-option of corporations in an interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary \u201ccronyism,\u201d Ramaswamy held, allows the government to evade First Amendment restrictions against direct state-driven censorship of free speech and expression through Big Tech.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>He said, \u201cWhat you see today is not just private companies using government to do what private companies couldn\u2019t do on their own. I<\/span><span>t is government using private companies to do through the back door what government cannot do directly through the front door under the Constitution. That is the defining feature of today\u2019s crony capitalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The \u201ccurrency\u201d of purchasing favors from government has changed relative to previous corrupt procurement of state influence, Ramaswamy assessed. He noted that \u201cwoke corporations\u201d can court leftist politicians through superficial overtures to \u201cdiversity\u201d by implementing hiring quotas based on race, sex, and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p><span>He remarked, \u201cCrony capitalism 2.0 today [is] really different than crony capitalism 1.0. The directionality is bidirectional today and the currency is a little different, too.&nbsp;<\/span><span>Crony capitalism 1.0 is really simple. You have executives at Goldman Sachs write nice fat checks, give it to a PAC, give it directly to a campaign, hire s<\/span><span>ome lobbyists, get your alumni placed in the administration \u2014 pretty simple system, get political favors in return \u2014 everyone gets how that works.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>He continued, \u201cCrony capitalism, 2.0 is different in two respects. One is when the ascendant party in power may not actually accept those political favors through the front door.&nbsp;<\/span><span>Say when Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were frontrunners of the Democratic primary. Goldman Sachs realizes that it needs to use a new currency.&nbsp; Elizabeth Warren said she\u2019s not going to take money from them. She said she\u2019s not going appoint any Wall Street alumni into her administration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implementing race-, sex-, and sexual-orientation-based hiring quotas amounts to a new form of political bribery with left-wing politicians, Ramaswamy explained.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12407127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"44\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-cnn-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12407127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-cnn-getty.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">caption on that: JANUARY 14: Tom Steyer (L-R), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) await the start of the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Goldman Sachs used \u201ca new trick\u201d to court Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during the 2016 presidential race, Ramaswamy stated. The company made a \u201c<\/span><span>declaration from the mountaintops of Davos that Goldman Sachs will not take a company public in the United States if its board is insufficiently diverse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said, \u201cThis was just tithing in a new currency, because Elizabeth Warren is obsessed with identity politics. \u2026&nbsp;<\/span><span>It is tithing in this new currency where if you can\u2019t use money, you bow to this new temple of identity politics at the altar.\u201d<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy determined that \u201can arranged marriage\u201d between \u201cwoke millennials\u201d and \u201ccorporate Wall Street\u201d yielded \u201cthe illegitimate birth of of this Woke Industrial Complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cwoke industrial complex,\u201d he concluded, \u201cis a force that is far more powerful than either big government or big business, because it\u2019s a hybrid of the two that can do together w<span>hat neither one of them can do on its own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivek Ramaswamy, author of\u00a0Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America\u2019s Social Justice Scam, explained how the \u201cwoke industrial complex\u201d allows government to circumvent constitutional restraints on its power via co-option of corporations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}