Some people, in fact, are happy to set a match to something that works. They even want the honor of being the ones to douse it with gasoline.
Well, corporatists are treating the United States, and democracy in general, as something they don't really like all that much, and it makes them a bit uncomfortable. So in their eyes, it deserves a good razing. Details after the creamsicle shwirlie.
I don't know how many have seen this video from October 9th of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responding to question on the Ed Schultz show, wherein Sanders explains that the few Tea Party Republicans are, in fact, threatening worldwide fiscal "catastrophy" should we go over the edge and default on the 15th of October...now four days away. It's absolutely worth watching.
Even though we try to get these knuckleheads, and I say "knuckleheads" in reference not only to the Tea Party, but more importantly to the Sith-lord-esque corporate lords that fund them, to understand that you cannot treat a nation's politics and fiscal health like you do in a corporation, they are obviously flagrantly not listening.
Labor's history has been full of tragedies. Companies, especially mines and factories, reducing human lives and families to commodities which can be destroyed by their own management, whether knowingly or through what is considered now a labor violation.
However, we get to the American disaster that was Hostess Foods. The entire company was razed by its own management because, well, unionized workers finally realized what was going on.
Execs: Oh, please oh please. We're in trouble here. We need some austerity. We need you to cut some of your bennies and bonuses.
Workers: OK. --agrees--.
---Later, when it was discovered that management in fact funneled these cuts into their own bank accounts:-----
Execs: Oh, please oh please. We're in trouble here. We need some austerity. We need you to cut some of your bennies and bonuses.
Workers: Wat?? A 30% raise in the CEO's salary??! We're supposed to be broke here!!
Execs: Oh, please oh please. With sugary cream on top.
Workers: ..........no!!!
Then...BOOM! The doors were shuttered, and Twinkies and its delicious, not very healthy cream filling were put on the kitchen chopping block.
No, there wasn't any fire, or smoke, or damage to persons or property...just a bunch of execs that, when made just a tiny bit uncomfortable, took their bat and ball and went home.
Well, we are all Hostess Foods now. Because the corporatist's newest "favorite" stooge wasn't elected last year, the Tea Party backers in Congress are, in essence, burning down the fiscal system of the US, and in essence, the seat of democracy.
(And I can hear many, many of you saying "HURRR! Dey are both the same! Labels don't matter! I'm not gonna bother voting to keep these stooges out of office, I'm just gonna sit here and suck my thumb and complain about Bilderberg or something!"...well, this ain't that kind of diary. Sooooo sorry.)
The past 30 years looked much like this.
Austerity/Deregulation drones: Oh, please oh please. We're in trouble here. We need some austerity. Corporate uncertainty. Union thugs. Taxes are breaking us. 47% Lazy people draining us dry. Small businesses need fewer rules. Help, plox.
American people: OK. --concedes--.
The last election was different. The corporate world has repeatedly made obvious what it wants: a short-term, low-maintenance, low-information, instantly replaceable hive of drones. Therefore, no health care, lousy wages, terrible working conditions, and the repeal of those tiny little things...like the Minimum Wage and Child Labor laws.
Our current President ran on, primarily, health care. The stooge openly ran on eliminating the Afforable Care Act and replacing it...with absolutely nothing. Preident Barack Obama was given a second term by mandate, and now the American people, through their President, are doing the right thing...correctly whispering "no!!!" to these guys all over again by absolutely not debating over tying health care to the debt ceiling.
Don't like unions? Shut the whole thing down, reopen it somewhere else for little more than slave wages. Don't like labor rights? Spend billions getting officials in office with inane ideas like repealing Child Labor laws.
Don't like democracy? Spend billions of dollars jamming it up if your stooges don't win the elections. Because freedom/liberty/constitution/uncertainty/lazy people/welfare.
But mostly because...after all, a corporation is not a democracy.