{"id":583297,"date":"2021-07-05T17:21:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T21:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583297"},"modified":"2021-07-05T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T21:21:06","slug":"the-losers-of-this-game-are-the-american-people-young-medical-entrepreneur-is-defecting-from-leftist-corporate-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-losers-of-this-game-are-the-american-people-young-medical-entrepreneur-is-defecting-from-leftist-corporate-america\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Losers Of This Game Are The American People\u2019: Young Medical Entrepreneur Is \u2018Defecting\u2019 From Leftist Corporate America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fthe-losers-of-this-game-are-the-american-people-young-medical-entrepreneur-is-defecting-from-leftist-corporate-america%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=583297&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/8E043369-A4D7-4697-A29A-FDA21EA5705B-scaled-e1621625877499.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Vivek Ramaswamy \u2014 the former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences \u2014 explained that he resigned from his post in January due to frustration over corporate wokeness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/21\/woke-inc-why-im-blowing-whistle-on-how-corporate-america-is-poisoning-society\/\"><span>op-ed<\/span><\/a><span> for The New York Post, Ramaswamy likened companies\u2019 diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to a magician\u2019s mirage:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><i><span>All great magicians master the art of distraction \u2014 flashing lights, smoke, beautiful women on stage. Today\u2019s captains of industry do it by promoting progressive social values. Their tactics are far more dangerous for America than those of the older robber barons: Their do-good smoke screen expands not only their market power, but their power over every other facet of our lives. As a young 21st-century capitalist myself, the thing I was supposed to do was shut up and play along: Wear hipster clothes, lead via practiced vulnerability, applaud diversity and inclusion, and muse on how to make the world a better place at conferences in fancy ski towns. Not a bad gig.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Ramaswamy announced that he is instead \u201cdefecting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><i><span>I\u2019m fed up with corporate America\u2019s game of pretending to care about justice in order to make money\u2026 It\u2019s not just ruining companies. It\u2019s polarizing our politics. It\u2019s dividing our country to a breaking point. Worst of all, it\u2019s concentrating the power to determine American values in the hands of a small group of capitalists, rather than in the hands of the American citizenry at large, which is where the dialogue about social values belongs.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Comparing corporate America to Thomas Hobbes\u2019 Leviathan, Ramaswamy wrote that both liberals and conservatives are duped by large firms\u2019 tactics \u2014 the former by their \u201clove of woke causes,\u201d and the latter by their belief that \u201cthe market can do no wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><i><span>This new woke-industrial Leviathan gains its power by dividing us as a people. When corporations tell us what social values we\u2019re supposed to adopt, they take America as a whole and divide us into tribes. That makes it easier for them to make a buck, but it also coaxes us into adopting new identities based on skin-deep characteristics and flimsy social causes that supplant our deeper shared identity as Americans.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Corporations win. Woke activists win. Celebrities win. Even the Chinese Communist Party finds a way to win. But the losers of this game are the American people, including both sincere progressives who are used as pawns and everyday conservatives who are silenced, our hollowed-out institutions, and American democracy itself.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>After Ramaswamy wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Silicon Valley firms were wrong to censor conservatives after the January 6 Capitol riot \u2014 which he called \u201ca stain on our history\u201d \u2014 advisers to his company resigned, and friends called him to explain that they were disappointed. Months earlier, Ramaswamy also faced criticism for not doing \u201cenough\u201d to condemn systemic racism following George Floyd\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><i><span>Apparently, being a CEO required me to speak out about politics sometimes, yet other times it required me to stay silent. As CEO, I needed to effectively run a business focused on developing medicines, without getting intertwined in political matters. Yet as a citizen, I felt compelled to speak out about the perils of woke capitalism. I tried my best to avoid using my company as a platform to foist my views on others. But eventually I had to admit that I couldn\u2019t do justice to either while trying to do both at once.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Ramaswamy stepped down from his own company six months ago, granting the chief executive job to the CFO. He is preparing to release a book \u2014 \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Woke-Inc-Corporate-Americas-Justice\/dp\/1546090789?tag=nypost-20\"><span>Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America\u2019s Social Justice Scam<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d \u2014 in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ramaswamy is not the only prominent entrepreneur to express frustration over wokeness in the American business world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-rips-big-tech-censorship-of-conservatives\"><span>slammed<\/span><\/a><span> corporate censorship in the wake of the January 6 riot, tweeting that \u201ca lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Months earlier, Musk became weary of the leftist governance of California, which prevented Tesla\u2019s facilities from resuming operations despite low risk from COVID-19. He encouraged Twitter users to \u201ctake the red pill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy \u2014 who was recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/twitter-restores-dave-portnoys-account-following-massive-backlash-portnoy-responds\"><span>banned<\/span><\/a><span> from Twitter for reasons that remain unclear \u2014 also despises censorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is an audience that appreciates, and it\u2019s not even Left or Right, it\u2019s kind of both, like, \u2018I like how these guys aren\u2019t backing down.\u2019 And our audience allows us to do that, so people have always asked, \u2018Why do you fight back\u2019 or \u2018Why do you push back\u2019 or \u2018Why don\u2019t you just shut up when someone takes a shot at you that you feel is unfair,\u2019 it\u2019s like, I\u2019m not going to do that. I will never throw the first punch, but if you throw a shot at me on Twitter \u2014 out of the clouds \u2014 it\u2019s not my responsibility to protect you,\u201d said Portnoy in an April interview with Ben Shapiro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivek Ramaswamy \u2014 the former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences \u2014 explained that he resigned from his post in January due to frustration over corporate wokeness.In an op-ed for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314036,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/8E043369-A4D7-4697-A29A-FDA21EA5705B-scaled-e1621625877499.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018The Losers Of This Game Are The American People\u2019: Young Medical Entrepreneur Is \u2018Defecting\u2019 From Leftist Corporate America","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/8E043369-A4D7-4697-A29A-FDA21EA5705B-scaled-e1621625877499.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018The Losers Of This Game Are The American People\u2019: Young Medical Entrepreneur Is \u2018Defecting\u2019 From Leftist Corporate America","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583297","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}