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.@Salesforce, The Most Anti-Conservative Company in America, is Making a Big Move

Is the country run by the voters or by Marc @Benioff?

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"You better consider the economic consequences of your social and political advocacy," Salesforce CEO Marc @Benioff warned conservative states.

It was 2016 and the smirking bearded billionaire was fresh off his war against conservative states, most notably Indiana, which had dared to pass laws protecting religious freedom against his wishes.

The portly billionaire with a scraggly beard and a social justice brand that covers his ruthlessness in his business dealings responded by announcing a boycott of Indiana until it backed off religious freedom.

That same year, the Hillary Clinton backer also decided to threaten the state of Georgia.

"Salesforce’s Marc Benioff Has Kicked Off New Era of Corporate Social Activism," the Wall Street Journal gushed. “Salesforce's Benioff is brave to fight for social justice.”

"CEOs have the ability to use their businesses as a platform for change," Benioff had declared.

Change is supposed to happen via the ballot box, and the corporate coup against representative government that corporate activism represents is a fundamental threat to a free country.

“The AR-15 is the most popular rifle in America. Ban it,” Benioff had tweeted in 2018.

A year later, @Salesforce, a dominant force in the CRM space, banned businesses that sell a variety of firearms from using its force.

Salesforce’s war against the First Amendment had transitioned smoothly from a campaign against the Second Amendment using its power as leverage.

And that power and leverage are about to get a whole lot more so with the @Tableau deal.

Estimates are that Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau Software may increase its revenues from $13B to $22B.

And, more significantly, make the social justice company even more dominant.

The $15.7 billion Salesforce bid will swallow up customers of Tableau, shut out competitors, and it’s expected that independent analytics may lose the ability to compete against this new behemoth.

The CRM (Customer Relations Management) market is already heavily consolidated with 10 vendors controlling 60% of the market. Salesforce dominates this market with a 25% share, up from 20% in 2016.

Lately, Benioff has been quite enthusiastic about a government crackdown on the tech industry. "We are in a point in our industry where enough is enough, and we need to get the value straight with these tech companies,” he argued.

And he might be right.

But while Benioff wants to see a crackdown on his rivals and competitors, there’s no apparent reason why Salesforce should be exempted from the close scrutiny of regulators over its dominant position.

Benioff has urged that Facebook should be regulated “the same way you regulated the cigarette industry.” Why shouldn’t his own monstrous company be treated like the cigarette industry?

The radical billionaire is a major political donor. And some politicians will try to protect Salesforce.

Politico reported that @Salesforce funneled millions to Clintonworld, paying @HillaryClinton $450K for speeches, donating $6M to the Clinton Global Initiative and 100’s of thousands to @ClintonFdn, and had lobbied the State Dept during her tenure, on its own business issues.

As Salesforce grows more monstrous, its voice deafens the democratic process and it’s up to elected officials to show whether they’re going to be weak in the face of Benioff’s bullying or take a stand.

The Salesforce CEO is a corporate bully,” Dan Forest, lieutenant governor for North Carolina, had warned.

Will the White House stand up to the bully?