Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. In 1792, amid growing distrust among shareholders in the

emerging American economy, the so-called Buttonwood Agreement created the first American stock exchange.

Seeking to restore trust and free exchange

in a volatile marketplace environment, it laid the foundation for what would become the New York

Stock Exchange. Well, today, because of rampant politicization, a big business, the trust with

consumers and shareholders about corporate America has also eroded significantly. Remember how Target

was selling gender neutral clothes to young kids and so-called chess binders to adolescent girls?

An organization that has been pushing for the last several years, corporate America out of ideological

activism is the 1792 exchange, And the results of their work is

stunning. The exchange's mission is to produce research and develop resources to help steer

public companies in the U.S. back to neutral on ideological issues so that they can best

serve their shareholders and customers with excellence and

integrity. That's a quote. And neutral is certainly the right word, because the goal is not

the form of theocracy within these corporate entities. It's to simply depoliticize them and to

free the market in the process. Corporations should not be putting their thumbs on the scale

of political and social issues,

as so many have been, especially aligning to advance progressive and left-leaning social justice causes.

Corporate America has, in fact, become the latest step in the Marxist goal of the long march

through the institutions. Even to the extent of serving causes counter to the

preferences of a large portion of their consumer base. Think about Bud Light or Harley-Davidson.

These decisions by corporations have had incredible ripple effects across the wider culture,

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