Mistakes are unavoidable in government, business, and the game of life. The trick is to learn from those errors, make quick adjustments, and move on.
The news is full of errors that major corporations have made during the last few years. Some have made quick adjustments; others did not.
Anheuser-Busch comes to mind. Another is Cracker Barrel.
The sports apparel giant, Nike, had a market value of close to $281 billion at its peak in Nov. 2021. They went woke, making Colin Kaepernick the face of its 30th-anniversary “Just Do It” campaign. They did this after he refused to stand for the national anthem at a football game.
In 2023, they hired Dylan Mulvaney — see also Anheuser-Bush failure — for paid promotions of women’s leggings and sports bras. Mulvaney was born male and transitioned to female.
Last week, Nike’s value was down to $56.5 billion, a loss of $200 billion. As a result, it was removed from the S&P 100.
There is a common saying: go woke and go broke. Nike is a prime example.
Highly intelligent people observe and learn from others’ mistakes.
Over a year ago, liberal host Bill Maher on Real Time with Bill Maher said, “New Rule. If we want to save our country, we should follow the advice good liberals have given for decades and learn from other countries. Especially those beacons of progressivism like Canada, England, and Scandinavia.”
Maher starts on his show with unemployment. Last month Canada’s unemployment rate was 6.4 percent, the average unemployment rate in the European Union (EU) was 6.0 percent and the rate for the U.S. was 4.1 percent.
He next pointed out that of the 15 North American cities with the worst air pollution, 14 are in Canada.
“There’s only one problem with thinking everything’s better in Canada,” Maher said, “It’s not.”
Democrats are constantly screaming about “affordability” for the upcoming midterm elections.
In April, the average price of a house in the United States was $410,700. If you were buying a house in Canada, it would cost an additional $64,000 in U.S. dollars.
According to Business Insider, Canada has the highest household debt as a share of GDP in the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) with 75 percent of its debt from mortgages.”
When it comes to Universal Health Care, Democrats again point to our neighbors to the north. In a 2024 report published by the Toronto Star, Canada ranked last in primary health care access among the 10 wealthiest countries. The Star pointed out that “Canada also ranked last in ability to get a same-day or next-day appointment to see a doctor or nurse.”
“Broken Country,” directed by Canadian filmmaker Mira Metter and co-produced by her husband, Mike Werry interviewed a man who suffered a spinal injury. It took him 15 hours to see a surgeon. His doctor told him that if he had seen within an hour of his injury, he would have fully recovered. Now he lives with chronic pain and can walk only short distances with a walker. After seeking treatment for his pain, the man was offered Medical Assistance in Dying.
In November of last year, SecondStreet.org found that 23,000 Canadians died on the medical waitlist that year.
On the immigration front, Maher points out that, “Sweden opened its borders to over a million and a half immigrants since 2010. And now, 20 percent of its citizens are foreign-born and its education system is tanking, and it has Europe’s highest rate of gangland killings.”
Maher left out a couple of issues in his commentary, like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and industry.
At the top of the G7 list for GDP is the U.S. at 2.3 percent. While not great, it is leaps and bounds above the other six countries: Germany 0.8 percent, Japan 0.7 percent, United Kingdom 0.8 percent, France 0.9 percent, Italy at 0.5 percent, and Canada at 1.5 percent.
In the Fortune Global 500’s top 100 companies, 65 are located in the U.S., 13 in China, and 11 in Europe. There are none in Canada.
If you haven’t noticed, big corporations aren’t lining up to feature Mulvaney in a commercial to promote feminine products or items bought by manly men. They learned a lesson from Anheuser-Busch and Nike.
Voters in the U.S. need to take note: Progressive wokeism does not end well.
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