My father in law is the most easy going guy you’d ever meet. He’s gentle. Kind. Thoughtful. But don’t mistake those attributes as weakness. He simply picks his battles because in the apocalypse, this is one guy you’d want to have your back. Politics sometimes is like this. People will rail against "the rich" or corporations and assume wrongly think they have leverage when they don't.
This is typically seen with the American left who gleefully hope for higher taxes on corporations and "the rich". The problem is, those two groups tend to be the people who "do stuff". And people who do stuff are the ones in control. This isn't about what's fair or how things should be. I am talking about how things actually are.
I recently got deluged with hate mail because I commented on Facebook that it annoyed me that UPS was boycotting all of Fox News. I'm not a Fox fan (I get my news online) but as a libertarian/conservative type, I get pretty sick of the "faux news" stuff. Don't like it? Don't watch it. So I said on my FB page that I'd just have us use FedEx instead. Costs the same. Naturally, people freaked out and started to loudly pronounce their intention to boycott anything we make.
Their argument is that people should be held accountable for their beliefs. Okay. I agree with that.
But as they insist that people should be held accountable for their beliefs financially they absolutely rely that I’ll be the bigger man and not hold that attitude when it comes to hiring and firing.
The same is true on taxes. People love to tax "the rich" and the corporations and yet assume those people and companies won't alter their behavior. It's like the person who shops on price but thinks "the rich" and the corporations won't move or find ways to avoid punitive taxation.
At the end of the day, the people who do stuff are the ones who move history forward -- for good or ill. Action always beats belief.
People who do stuff don't tend to sweat what someone believes. They tend to care about their actions and how those actions will actually affect them.
Like my father-in-law, they have a thick skin. They don’t react easily. But something tells me that people are going to down the path that will ultimately serve as a stark reminder of just how much of the real world is run by "the rich" and corporations.
My advice: Pick your battles. Consider the unintended consequences when taking action.