We Are So Fucked(?)

SCOTUS blows up a hundred years of 'settled law', and there's an awful lot of sturm und drang about the end of democracy as we know it.  (BTW: I'm gettin' a little tired of Olbermann - seems like he's in full Drama Queen mode every 3rd day about some damned thing or another)  I don't wanna lose my shit just because something scary is happening.

That said, I think the decision is pretty fucked up.  It allows any given company's Executive Suite to dedicate a portion of every employee's work to a political agenda item that will likely NOT be in the best interests of those individual employees, even as it works to benefit that company.  It concentrates way too much power in way too few hands.

None of this is certain, of course, but I don't wanna be all Zen Master-y, and just say, "we'll see", because there's a very real potential threat here.  The first priority of power is to perpetuate itself.  And since we haven't seen anybody resembling Geo Washington lately, I'm not expecting to see anybody walking away from power willingly.  Not now.  Every tin-plated martinet now has even greater incentive to grab whatever he can.  The real kicker is how ironic the whole thing becomes in light of two things: 1) proponents of the decision and of big corporate power are likely to claim status as acolytes of Ayn Rand.  2) Ayn Rand detested the weakness of people who tried to use governmental influence to further the interests of a company, and addressed it well in Atlas Shrugged in the section called 'The Politics of Pull'.

Maybe we'll get a better idea of how it plays out by watching to see who moves first &/or most aggressively &/or most stealthily, &/or whatever.

I think, if he wants to get back on top of things, Obama needs to pick a fight over this - we saw some of that yesterday(?) when he took some rhetorical shots at Wall Street Bankers and Special Interests.  His SOTU next week is the perfect platform to launch a brand new campaign.  Big opportunity; big risk; big potential payoff.

This post is rambling around the bend.