{"id":56090,"date":"2023-02-13T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/former-carls-jr-ceo-rips-lefts-groupthink-epidemic-says-it-has-metastasized-almost-into-a-religion-56090"},"modified":"2023-02-13T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T10:00:47","slug":"former-carls-jr-ceo-rips-lefts-groupthink-epidemic-says-it-has-metastasized-almost-into-a-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/former-carls-jr-ceo-rips-lefts-groupthink-epidemic-says-it-has-metastasized-almost-into-a-religion-56090","title":{"rendered":"Former Carl&#8217;s Jr. CEO rips left&#8217;s groupthink epidemic, says it has &#8216;metastasized almost into a religion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former CKE Restaurants CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/p\/andy-puzder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Puzder<\/a> ripped the left&#8217;s groupthink epidemic in a recent interview, telling Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson that the collective push for certain ideals has become almost like a religion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re facing a groupthink on the left that&#8217;s metastasized almost into a religion,&#8221; he said in a recent installment of Fox Nation&#8217;s &#8220;Tucker Carlson Today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Puzder, who oversaw popular fast food chains like Hardee&#8217;s and Carl&#8217;s Jr., said the left, &#8220;use[s] things like climate change&#8221; and &#8220;equity over equality&#8221; to reshape the private sector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/rampant-retail-theft-making-inflation-worse-threatens-bleeding-businesses-economists-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>RAMPANT RETAIL THEFT MAKING INFLATION WORSE, THREATENS BLEEDING BUSINESSES, ECONOMISTS SAY<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re no longer talking about hiring people based on merit, we&#8217;re talking about hiring people based on diversity. Forget Martin Luther King&#8217;s \u2018we should judge people based on their character, their qualifications, their merit.\u2019 We&#8217;re now openly judging people on their race or their sex,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Puzder called the push a &#8220;terrible trend,&#8221; telling Carlson that ESG [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/missouri-latest-state-divest-blackrock-esg-initiatives-woke-political-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">environmental, social, and governance<\/a>] investing is behind it, in part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of this descends from this ESG mentality that the left has been able to impose on us through control by these asset managers of American business, America&#8217;s private sector,&#8221; he told Carlson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-admin-under-fire-pursuing-diversity-over-merit-finding-people-not-talented\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BIDEN ADMIN UNDER FIRE FOR PURSUING DIVERSITY OVER MERIT: THEY&#8217;RE FINDING PEOPLE \u2018WHO AREN\u2019T HIGHLY-SKILLED&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He went on to call ESG investing a &#8220;real threat&#8221; to the private sector, adding that asset managers are using the American people&#8217;s own money to implement certain policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to change the world, do it at the ballot box or do it with your own money,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Puzder, who has been critical of ESG investing for some time, coincides with other Republicans who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/republican-states-planning-assault-woke-banks-wont-do-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critiqued elements<\/a> of the environmental and social initiatives for politicizing business practices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/republican-states-take-drastic-measure-latest-salvo-esg-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>REPUBLICAN STATES TAKE DRASTIC MEASURE IN LATEST SALVO AGAINST ESG MOVEMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/blackrock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Asset management firms like BlackRock,<\/u><\/a> State Street, and Vanguard have all taken center stage with lead roles in the ESG movement.<\/p>\n<p>To watch Tucker Carlson&#8217;s full interview with Andy Puzder, sign up for Fox Nation and stream the &#8220;Burgers to Billions&#8221; episode of &#8220;Tucker Carlson Today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>FOX Business&#8217; Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/former-carls-jr-ceo-rips-lefts-groupthink-epidemic-metastasized-religion\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/former-carls-jr-ceo-rips-lefts-groupthink-epidemic-metastasized-religion <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder ripped the left&#8217;s groupthink epidemic in a recent interview, telling Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson that the collective push for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-56090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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