America is a corrupt place, and it’s not infrequent for that corruption to result in less-than-stellar results for the American consumer. Sometimes those poor results manifest as cheap, ineffective products . Other times, they may lead to more serious problems, like cancer-causing chemicals in your food. Sometimes corporate dysfunction has even been known to spur plane crashes . However, instead of facing up to the obvious facts (that America is run by greed-addled companies that would rather trade Americans’ safety and quality of life for enormous profits), rightwingers have spent the last several years arguing that many of the corporate failures that occur in this country happen because of companies’ commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Case in point: Earlier th