[Buckeye McFrog]

Companies doing short-sighted knuckleheaded things = growing mobs of angry people = pressure on politicians = bad laws getting passed.

Unfortunately most of our business community never seems to figure out Step 1.

[central_va]

Except this is a good law.

[NorthMountain]

Companies doing short-sighted knuckleheaded things = growing mobs of angry people = pressure on politicians = bad laws getting passed.

Because "we" (even most conservatives) have forgotten to ask "DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO THIS?" "We" just assume that it does; "we" behave as though the government has the authority to do anything any group of agitators demand that it do. "We" have destroyed a republic and created a mob-controlled tyranny.