Harness the Anger: SCOTUS, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera

[Goldstein1984]

(I'm typing this fast before I leave work and pick up my grandchildren, so these are just some quick thoughts that I hope we can build upon.)

Folks, we're all pissed off about a SCOTUS decision on corporate personhood. There was already a lot, too well understood to mention here, to be angry about.

The SCOTUS decision provides an OPPORTUNITY: Citizens United, which brought the case to the SCOTUS, is backed by rich people. Those people got rich through business. Those businesses are vulnerable to boycotts; they are subject to legislation that can limit and tax them.

Since we haven't seen much coming from the Legislative and Executive branches of late, and since we just got a major screwing from the Judicial branch, it's up to We the People to take action ourselves. We have to provide the leadership.

When the dust settles, We must find those behind the assault on democracy, and we must hold them accountable.

For example, Charles and David Koch, who are the 9th richest people in the United States, own Koch Industries. Koch Industries has subsidiaries. For example, Flint Hills Resources, a refining and petrochemical subsidiary of Koch. Unless there has been a change, FHR has an exclusive contract with Holiday, a chain of convenience stores that sells FHR refined products (gas & diesel). It would be the easiest thing in the world to target Holiday as a way to get to Koch. The odds are that you would be buying Koch fuel through another retailer, but you would be making a business relationship with Koch a liability.

There is plenty that can be done. We're not powerless. We've been abandoned by most of our elected representatives, yes, but the Many still outnumber the Few. That's why they call us the Many. It seems to me that Many pissed off people are something to be respected.

I've put this up on DU before:

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'

~from "The Mask of Anarchy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Entire poem: http://www.artofeurope.com/shelley/she5.htm