ANDERSON: The Left's ESG Movement Is Coming After All Americans. Here's How It Can Be Stopped

Americans were just issued a dire warning after “Dilbert,” a comic beloved 
by many over the years, was dropped from 77 publications after over three 
decades.

Created by cartoonist Scott Adams, “Dilbert” uses satire to poke fun at 
traditional office life on a number of issues, which recently included 
“ESG.” As this particular comic strip explained, the ESG movement seeks to 
use a new set of criteria — environmental, social, and governance — to 
evaluate businesses and consumers based on how well they align with the 
progressives’ woke priorities, including climate radicalism, gender 
ideology, gun control and even abortion-on-demand.

Probably not by coincidence, “Dilbert” was dropped from many major 
publications after pointing out the lunacy of such policies. There’s no 
doubt its culture-shaping commentary will be missed by many that enjoyed 
the subtle humor. What is not so subtle, however, is the ESG movement, 
which has used the Left’s fear-driven, systemic cancel culture to trigger 
major workplace policy changes and squeeze the syndication outlets for 
popular cultural figures like Dilbert. 

But why should you care about what happens to successful cartoonists or in 
corporate boardrooms?

Because it’s not stopping there — the ESG movement is set on taking over 
culture and business to control working Americans through its radical and 
at times bizarre scoring system, which punishes or rewards people based on 
their race, sexual orientation, carbon footprint, or wokeness.

Small business owners, investors and consumers are the real targets of 
this rage against our culture and normal business practices. The ESG 
scorekeepers are looking closely at everything we do to identify “victims” 
and “oppressors.” Think of it as an alternative accounting system using 
social media and corporate governance to punish those citizens and 
businesses that don’t fit into the Left’s woke ideological vision for the 
future.

If you don’t comply, they can work to drive away your customers, dry up 
your capital and publicly shame you.

Need a fresh example?

In a House Financial Services committee hearing last week, Rep. Rashida 
Tlaib asked CEOs of major banks whether they would go along with her ESG 
agenda and commit to stop funding fossil fuels. Unsurprisingly, they all 
declined and J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon even admitted that her plan 
“would be the road to Hell for America.” Rep. Al Green followed up and 
asked the CEOs whether they believed their banks had done enough to 
“atone” for their part in slavery.

Earlier in September, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for credit card 
companies to start categorizing purchases consumers make at gun stores. 
Soon after, companies like Visa, Mastercard, and American Express 
announced that they would fall in line and start tracking purchases. This 
could essentially result in the creation of a de facto gun registry, 
maintained by private companies, that progressives could use to target 
law-abiding gun owners.

On Sept. 19, the corporate communications company, Twilio, announced that 
it would be laying off 11% of its workforce. Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson of 
course clarified that these layoffs would be made through an “Anti-Racist” 
lens. Under ESG policies, companies like Twilio will be rewarded for 
considering race, not merit, when making personnel decisions.

While this is just one of the early examples of woke governance policies, 
there will be plenty of other examples in businesses and companies of all 
sizes.

Dilbert was right; this is absurd, just not funny. So what can be done?

Over a dozen states, including Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, 
Kentucky and Tennessee have already fought back by protecting their 
states’ pensions, investments and contracts, but more needs to be done to 
counter the ESG movement. The federal government must also be kept in 
check with progressives like Tlaib hell-bent on turning this into federal 
policy and President Joe Biden’s bureaucracy trying to use the Securities 
and Exchange Commission to do just that.

Whether you are Adams or an average American looking to make an honest 
living, ESG hurts everyone. Citizens and CEOs alike need to call out ESG 
when they see it, and unite to reject its implementation from the 
boardroom down to the factory floor.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/01/opinion-the-lefts-esg-movement-is-
coming-after-all-americans-anderson