Employees being bullied to vote for Romney

The last couple of weeks I’ve seen news reports of company CEO’s sending their companies employees notifications that if Obama is reelected their jobs will be in jeopardy.  The reasoning that they give hasn’t been clear, but does center on Obama’s tax plan.  Not surprising to me though is that the Koch brothers have done this with an election packet that they sent to all 45,000 employees of their Georgia Pacific Company. 

If you don’t know who the Koch brothers are, look them up, you will find lots of information about them.  They played a major role in the congressional elections of 2010, the rise of the tea party, and are influential in the creation of the Super PAC’s that are single handedly destroying the American political system.  But that’s a subject for a different time.

Essentially what these CEO’s are doing is bullying their employees into voting for the candidate that they want elected.  That is not fair of them.  They should not be able to put fear of losing your job into the decision that Americans have to make on who should be the next President.  I understand that we are able to endorse and support whatever candidate that we want.  We also live in a country of free speech, so they should be able to tell people who they will vote for and why.  But they should not be able to send a letter to their employees and tell them that they can/will lose their job if Obama is reelected. 

The great thing about America is that we are free, and with that freedom we have the right to vote for whoever we want.  That is why your ballot is submitted anonymously.  Of course you can tell people who you voted for, hell you can even lie about who you voted for if your candidate lost, but that’s not what is happening here.  These CEO’s are single handedly attempting to strip Americans of one of their biggest rights as an American citizen, and that is the right to vote for who you think is the best candidate.  Bullying or intimidating someone to vote for a particular candidate is the worst thing that can happen to our political system.  It’s bad enough that the super rich can distort the information that we receive about candidates through the use of their Super PAC’s, but to threaten someone’s job, that just takes it to far.

But I'm just one man and this is my opinion.

Thanks for reading,

Dustin Dominiak