I’m not gonna disagree with them either. This is the problem with the world the CEOs have made. THEY have created an us or them situation. THEY have created salary boards to make sure they all make a lot of money. THEY setup corporate cultures that revolve around layoffs. THEY have decided that corporation that delivers they least at the most profit is the right corporation, even if what they’re supposed to be delivering is keeping alive. THEY have decided their should just hoard assets, like housing, to drive the price up, don’t worry about how homelessness is increasing.
There is NO law and order in this country. Just look at Epstein. The rich are not accountable. He got busted multiple times before it was finally so egregious they just had to throw him in jail. And some of this stuff shouldn’t be against the law. I don’t want the government declaring how much a CEO can make. I want the CEOs to recognize there’s a logical moral cap to how many times what their average employer salary they should get. But it’s not the government’s business. So no, law and order will NOT solve this. The CEOs either get it or they don’t. And since we’ve been talking about CEO salaries being way out of whack for 30 years, it’s clear they don’t get it. Maybe they’ll start listening.
This is the world they made. And now they have to audacity to be shocked that a growing percentage of the population is thinking “or we could just shoot the bastards”. Again, they went to liberal colleges, they read right books, they know what inspires the revolution, they know who’s first against the wall. It’s nobody’s fault but their own that they’ve decided that’s what they want to happen.
I think my fundamental disagreement with you is that I don’t believe we can live in a society where we have “Cafeteria Constitutionalism” where we can pick and choose which ones we agree with and support, and those we don’t and refuse to observe.
Doing this in your own mind is one thing. Doing it in the real world, and advocating for it is wholly another thing, and I am not willing to go there.
If we accept there is NO law and order in this country, then we are done, finished. But I maintain that if there is no law and order, it is not because this is the foundation of our Republic which you characterize as non-functional.
It is because people tasked with seeing that people observe laws ranging from homicide to election processes simply decided to not observe the laws and became scofflaws, and have not been called on it. In other words, they became “Cafeteria Constitutionalists” and that will not work. Ever.
We have to live under laws we pass.
I think that can still happen, because it is happening.