If you wonder why Ron DeSantis is such an attractive presidential candidate to many conservatives, it's because he seems to think of everything. He is reforming woke academia, fighting Disney's anti-child insanity, and now looking out for pensioners by purging "environmental, social, and corporate governance," or ESG, investing from his state's government with fire and the sword:
"By applying arbitrary ESG financial metrics that serve no one except the companies that created them, elites are circumventing the ballot box to implement a radical ideological agenda,” DeSantis said. “Through this legislation, we will protect the investments of Floridians and the ability of Floridians to participate in the economy.”
This is responsible governance in action. ESG is a scam. It victimizes pensioners and other investors by elevating superstitious concerns above the worthiness of actual investments. All state and local governments have a fiduciary obligation to ignore ESG when investing and focus on maximizing returns for the people who are depending on pension funds to retire.
DESANTIS EXPANDS ANTI-ESG PUSH IN CRUSADE AGAINST 'WOKE' INVESTING
And as DeSantis notes, ESG is even worse than that — it is an anti-democratic attempt to impose wokeness via plutocracy. The Left cannot win enough elections to impose its will through democratic processes, so they try instead to manipulate government processes with corporate money. It is an ugly thing to watch.
State governments should not let themselves be used in this manner. And any candidate who isn't ready to fight this and several other culture-war fights that the Left has brought is not ready to be president.