Investors in publicly-traded-private-entities are becoming accustomed to the phrase that “each and every vote counts” and an individual’s profound impact on corporate elections that are becoming as divisive and toxic as heated civic political races. The phenomenon, which is trending towards an unsettling reality, threatens the future of the free market, as ideology has invaded the board of directors at major companies, and the vast umbrellas encompassing the brand names that define the consumer element of the US and the global economy. Even shareholders savvy to the intricacies of the legal have joined forces in filing lawsuits to meet their cultural demands in forwarding privatized legislation which will inherently be adopted by government.
In the latest instance of activists attempting to hijack the decision-making mechanism of a corporation, the behemoth of the Walt Disney galaxy faces a possible uncertain future as candidates armed with specific and detrimental narratives are being endorsed fiscally through extremist groups on both sides of the political ledger disguised as investment firms. These individuals, under nefarious pretenses, exist as subservient instruments of groups invoking ulterior motives, which has taken special interests to next-level erraticism laced with pork barrel stipulations which identify as North Korean dog moms involved in the illusion of a street art performance under the direction of Kim Jung Un to ensure tourists that Pyongyang is a cosmopolitan globally relevant city. Suddenly, the brazenly barren sidewalks of the capital swarm with a fabricated industrialized vibrancy, an illusion that resounds, yet lacks substance or a basis in reality.
While corporate takeovers are far from a novel concept, the method of electing activists with ties to the peace movement and obscure sects of major religions is simply another microcosm of the radicalization of society and the growing pains of the pre-teen years of the Information Age. Adding lawsuits to the mix filed by shareholders only enhance the disruptive directives. With no specific distinction to a specific vertical marketplace, the attack on big business for an increased influence on Capitol Hill has manifested itself in a strategic thermonuclear assault on Western society and the industrialized world. While not confined to what are conceived as traditional brand names, the battlefield has extended to industries such as the self-defense marketplace. In one of the most infamous narratives over the last decade, a group of pacifist nuns targeted legacy gun manufacturer Smith and Wesson and deployed the model of stock-holder obliviousness combined with overall apathy in filing a lawsuit against the company over the production, selling and marketing of the often targeted AR platform. The aggressive maneuver resulted in a demand by the stockholder sisterhood that the gun manufacturer change the design to adhere to “safety concerns” in a campaign which was appropriately coined as “nuns against guns”. In nudging a corporation towards a trajectory of bankruptcy through loopholes and subversion, the degradative connotations of fiscal weaponry has severe ramifications as to the health of the decision-making process from a macular and human level in dissecting a privately-owned-publicly traded entity. Within this context, the American voters are unknowingly marking election ballots through their spending habits and the profound example is growth and the prevalence of social media as a historically lucrative venture. Within the wayward Rube Goldberg machine instability emanates throughout the demographics as a cultural archetype for societal engineering that is vexing paradox to engineers, physicists, economists, and to a lesser extent, sociologists.
The pivot towards the elected board of director members of the unofficial corporate proxy business world has added another layer to the political hierarchy, within the substrate of natural selection and pecuniary Darwinism, as stifling tribalism overwhelms the edges of the free market and laissez-faire economics. With protestors under the false pretense of glorified lobbyists attaining positions of power through obliviousness and apathy, the infrastructure and policies of corporations continue to decay and morph in catering to extremism. The pacifist nunnery gun control activists furtively sneaking their way into the Smith and Wesson domain in putting themselves in prime position to enact what they consider “productive change” through a legal challenge, is becoming the new norm, as the calculated dynamic between companies and politicians continues to evolve for the worst. Purchasing power has never been so streamlined and diabolical, especially within the bleak world overrun with coercive stipulations.