‘The socialists are taking over,’ Whole Foods CEO John Mackey laments

The “socialists are taking over” Whole Foods’ CEO and co-founder, John Mackey, has lamented in a recent podcast interview.

“They’re marching through the institutions. They’re taking everything over. They’re taking over education. It looks like they’ve taken over a lot of corporations. It looks like they’ve taken over the military, and it’s just continuing,” he told the libertarian magazine Reason in a podcast released on Wednesday.

“I feel like with the way freedom of speech is today, the movement on gun control, a lot of the liberties that I’ve taken for granted most of my life, I think are under threat,” Mackey said.

Mackey pegged the candid sharing of his political opinions to his upcoming retirement as Whole Foods’ chief executive in September.

“In six weeks, I will retire from Whole Foods, and I have muzzled myself ever since 2009,” Mackey said, referring to the op-ed he penned for the Wall Street Journal that year where he compared Obamacare to fascism.

“My board basically shut me down. It’s like a father, they started attacking the child, and I was intimidated enough to shut up,” Mackey told Reason. He compared his upcoming experience to the Home Depot billionaire and conservative Bernie Marcus.

“People were constantly going after Home Depot to get them to shut up Bernie Marcus. Home Depot has to say Bernie retired over 20 years ago, we can’t get him to shut up, you have to take it to Bernie,” he said.

“I was telling my leadership team pretty soon, you’re going to be hearing about ‘crazy John’ who’s no longer muzzled, and you’re going to have to say, ‘We can’t stop John from talking any longer.’”

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It's a very sad world that we live in now. One that I never envisioned. No opinions are allowed unless they agree with the narrative. I hope to hear more from people like John Mackey.

Totally agree...
Thats why I spend so much time on the golf course...
Listening to the birds in the trees...watching the ducks walk along
the side of the lake with their ducklings...watching magpies
pick at the grass beside you as you tee off....
Peace and solitude....
No interference from the clown world outside.....

Amazon bought Whole Foods in 2017.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Amazon bought Whole Foods in 2017.

For $13.7 billion!