J.D. Vance: Corporate America Dividing The Country, Preventing People From Unifying | Video | RealClearPolitics
JD VANCE, AUTHOR: Well, I think that you have to ask yourself who benefits from a lot of this tension and a lot of this division. If you think about a business, black owned or white owned that was destroyed in a riot over the last few weeks, who gets richer from that?
We know that Amazon has a little bit more market share. And so Jeff Bezos makes a little bit more money. If you think about what prevents new businesses from coming online and competing with those mega corporations that rule our financial world, well, every time a small business gets denied for a loan, every time a small business goes out of business, that’s obviously good for the folks who run our corporate culture.
And at the end of the day, what are we not talking about right now that we should be talking about? We’re not talking about the opioid epidemic, which kills 70,000 people still in this country. We’re not talking about concentrated financial power, which is the biggest problem that white and black middle class Americans face today.
And at the end of the day, what we’re doing is creating an entire narrative that’s dividing the country instead of actually causing middle and working class people to unify and to try to convince through political means others to share power with them.
Every time a black business gets burned, that’s a little more business for Amazon. Just sayin’.