Beware billionaires who profess allegiance to America’s democratic values: their allegiance is to themselves.

What a show, huh? Big-name corporations went all out this July 4th with a patriotic ad blitz professing their devotion to America’s democracy.

But it amounted to a Firecracker of Hypocrisy, for many of these showboat patriots have been backroom funders of the President Donald Trump regime’s repression of our people’s democratic rights.

Also, there’s an internal level of cynical dishonesty in their flashy show of support for egalitarian values. In the past few years, a clique of these Silicon Valley and Wall Street giants has been monkeywrenching the rules of their own corporate governance to crush the very idea of “shareholder democracy.”

Yes, such a concept has existed, at least in theory. For decades, big business profiteers have been given special privileges over the rest of us by claiming to be “democratic enterprises,”........

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