How I Came To This Crazy Conclusion...  The freelance writing business takes you on some unexpected adventures. Over the holidays I was doing research work for this one client regarding the political leanings of corporations, which included punching the names of lots of companies into the site Open Secrets.        It's a strange world there. In the first place, there's some debate as to whether corporations should be meddling in politics on the financial level at all.  But beyond that, the logic behind corporate political donations is baffling. Many of them donate near equally to both Democrat and Republican parties, basically saying "We don't care who wins, we just want to make sure we have a friend when they get in."   Wal-Mart - Lately donates to both parties with a pronounced Republican lean, but during the Bush, Jr. administration went all in for Rs.    Target - Went all in for Republicans during the Bush years and well into Obama's first term, now leans slightly Democrat since Trump took…