(02-20-2020 10:42 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Lots of mid-management employees do hiring, but have no skin in the game. Easy for them to be liberal - no consequences. But when you go to the bank, and cosign a business note personally,(as I have) putting all you have at risk(as I have) - that's when the perceptions change(as mine did).

Myself as well, OO, good for you.
But you left out one thing the Left almost always fails to see: many currently wealthy businesspeople, ones that started "evil" corporations, have at one time or another, in the course of business, failed miserably, and many lost everything or near-everything more than once on the way to their wealth. Those lessons are often necessary in order to become ultra-successful, along with the scorn and other slings and arrows. There is no guarantee, but our Dem comrades offer the lie of a guarantee to get their minions to trade their freedoms and souls. It is as much the right to be allowed to try and fail that is as important as the opportunity to succeed that makes a nation great and free. And it is often through allowing these failures to occur when they naturally do, without a safety net, that we push farther forward than other societies in advancement. Taking away those opportunities takes away opportunity for greatness.