American exceptionalism was always part of Coca-Cola’s identity, until it wasn’t.
There are two things that mean “American” everywhere in the world and require no translation: Hollywood and Coca-Cola. While Hollywood has long nursed its anti-American pro-Communist bias, those nice folks in Georgia have always pushed their sweet brown fizzy liquid in a nonpolitical way. Their only remotely political doctrine has been the slogan “Ice Cold.”
American exceptionalism has always been part of Coca-Cola’s identity, and it reached its zenith in the late 1980s under Claus Halle, president of Coca-Cola International. Unfortunately, this week the current CEO of Coca-Cola, James Quincey, a British-born engineer-turned-consultant-turned-Coca-Cola executive, unilaterally decided to take the iconic American company blindly and headlong into the cancel culture fray. Without warning, he decided to weigh in on Georgia’s new voting law and proceeded to declare:
Let me be crystal clear and unequivocal, this legislation is unacceptable, it is a step backward and it does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia, around broad access to voting, around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity, and this is frankly just a step backwards.
How would Quincey know what a step backward would be? He is a Brit! .............To Read More....
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