Author Explains the Problem With the 'Woke' Invasion of Big Business

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🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Why is corporate America increasingly stepping in to support "woke" social justice causes?

"These corporations are part of a movement that has been going on in the West and in this country in particular for the last roughly 100 years to move the culture very consistently and very aggressively to the left in order to more or less make ready the path for the revolution," says Steve Soukup, author of the new book "The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business."

Soukup joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain how activists have hijacked and twisted the purpose of many of the world's largest companies to serve left-wing ends and why Americans need to be concerned about it.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, March 17th.
0:09.8	I'm Rachel Deltjebus.
0:11.5	And I'm Virginia Allen.
0:12.8	On today's show, our colleague, Jared Stetman, talks with Steven Soakup, author of the new
0:18.0	book, The Dictatorship of Woke Capital, how political correctness captured big business.
0:25.0	They discuss how the political left is using its power to influence corporate America and
0:30.1	further a progressive agenda.
0:32.6	Don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or five-star
0:37.0	rating on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:41.1	Now onto our top news.
0:50.7	The Department of Homeland Security says illegal crossings are going to reach the highest
0:55.0	amount in two decades.
0:57.4	In a DHS statement, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Merakras said, we are on pace to
1:02.9	encounter more individuals on the Southwest border than we have in the last 20 years.
1:09.2	He added, we are not expelling most single adults and families.
1:13.2	We are not expelling unaccompanied children.
1:15.8	We are securing the border, executing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's
1:19.8	Public Health Authority to safeguard the American public and the migrants themselves and
1:24.2	protecting the children.
1:25.8	We have more work to do.
1:28.2	Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a strong and direct defense of the filibuster
1:33.5	on Tuesday.
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