See, the Libertarian ideal should rule--that your freedom stops where mine begins--but corporations have gotten in the way of that idea, what people should be MORE pissed off about IMO is the fact that our right to legal redress, i.e. our ability to sue in court, is now being impinged upon. That impinges upon my own Libertarian ideal.
There's a bit of a flaw in this logic though. I don't mean that in a bad way I'm just saying that the issue goes a bit deeper than you're putting it. Right?
So let's take your ideal: your freedom stops where mine begins.
So people are free to form groups, and indeed corporations. That's part of their freedom. When they have these large groups their relationship with the government fundamentally changes. Because there is no law preventing it they engage in their own version of "legal redress" shall we call it--by lobbying congress.
So there is this spectrum from employee, to entrepreneur, to small business, to medium business, to large, to nation-sized, to multinational, to international. Where do we draw that line?
Where does whose freedom stop and why? This is the question government is meant to answer, the base of the majority of disagreements between humans across the whole of time.
Self-government is supposed to be the closest approximation to the ideal, that's our model.
The problem is not the corporations who are exercising their freedom, it is the congress who are supposed to moderate and oversee the process by which "freedom" is doled out (in the diminutive sense).
Congress is able to both reduce or stop any and all of what might ail you specifically or us as a whole in the legal sense. As a necessary result of our constitution and the legal structure of our government it is then by proxy
the people who are at fault.
This congress and the 6 previous have failed to do much of anything of note. The American people have not taken note. The
self portion of self government has fallen into disrepair. That isn't the fault of congress or anyone above adjacent or in between. It is OUR responsibility to give two halves of a shit (one entire shit) about our country and do something about what is happening. Self government has become government, the scapegoat for all of our woes and the progenitor of all of our suffering--the seventh seal of the apocalypse, the second coming of Stalin feat. cronies and every other metaphor to have fallen out of the hat thus far.
All the while it's actually us who are running the show. Is it any wonder that we're doing a shit job while we sit here and feel sorry for ourselves about it? If you think of the American people as one man and one woman, both who have the job of voting (Read: voting is totally our job in this whole thing)--for at least the last 20 years every day when the alarm rings for them to go in to work they both tie off, chase the dragon a bit, and nod back off. Every once in awhile one of them comes in, unwashed and without pants, to cast a vote.
What I'm saying is if voting was our job (it is) we would be fired as fuck. Unfortunately we're actually the top of the pyramid here, so there's no one to fire us. It's like we're the CEO of a company and we're just in our top-floor office snorting meth and collecting our pee in jars. That's how our country is being run, and it's us doing it--or rather not doing it.
Well, that got pretty deep and specific. Obviously Seamaiden if there's any nastiness it's not directed at you--this is us
as a whole and that includes me.
