The Super vulnerable and dependent American culture

[CassandraLady23]

Ford, Chevrolet, GMC, Buick, Cadillac, Lincoln, Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep, and Ram.
(these are of course the surviving automotive companies in their current state existence)

The NFL, the MLB, the NBA, and Nascar..
I would include the NHL but it isn't simply as famous in the USA as you might think, nor is it part of the culture of the USA, and not many American citizens play in it, as compared to the others.

Private companies and corporate marques like Coca Cola.

Just how dependent have Americans made themselves ?

And if they wanted these things to be part of what makes America, truly America....

Why then did they not protect business owners and business ownership, or lifestyle decisions, in the Constitution ?

 

[williepete]

Why then did they not protect business owners and business ownership, or lifestyle decisions, in the Constitution ?

Well, it's a bit complicated. You see, James Madison drove a Ford F150 and you know how those diehard Ford guys are. John Adams was brilliant orator and statesman but he was a typical New Englander--a bit flinty and caustic but worse, he was a died-in-the-wool Cadillac man who like most Yankees looked down their noses at anyone who drove a pickup. So when the issue of protective measures came up, the rivalries prevented any type of compromise.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the genteel and dignified Southerners that they were loved NASCAR. Man-o-man, those boys could watch cars go around in a left turn all day long. They were also tooth and jowl with the NASCAR sponsors at the time. Rumors abounded that the big NASCAR sponsors, Eli's Buggy Whip Manufacturing, Jeremiah and Sons Saddle and Hathwaite's Whale Oil Distributing had Washington and Jefferson on the payroll as honorary board members. So no one was surprised when bills giving generous tax breaks to NASCAR affiliated companies started floating around the halls of the Continental Congress.

Well that infuriated Alexander Hamilton who was not without considerable pull. Hamilton was a huge NBA fan. He even owned a team. (And I mean owned). He felt his sport and side business would be shunted out of the limelight and began a backdoor campaign to derail Washington and Jefferson's NASCAR bills. It worked.

This is only part of the sorted story but you get the picture. The Constitution would have been packed full of provisions protecting pet businesses of the elite had the rich old slave owners gotten along with each other a little better. It all boils down to petty jealousy.

So now you know.