Amazon poured $1.4+ million into Seattle city council races, emphasizing commitment to diversity & gay rights, to defeat democratic socialists and left-leaning Democrats who dared raise taxes to pay for health care & homeless services.
This dynamic is happening in SF, DC, NYC & cities across the country. Corporations co-opt identity issues bc identity is ideologically neutral. They know it's an easy emotional trigger to shape Dem voters just as the same corporations use Christian values to influence red states.
The Seattle Chamber PAC designed to take out the leftists on the council was primarily an Amazon project but also funded by Expedia, Lyft, Boeing, Comcast, Alaska Air, AT&T -- almost all firms that tout woke bonafides but will crush any attempt to hike business taxes & min wage.
