Because corporations are only people when it comes to good things. If it’s a bad thing, corporate veil protects the people doing the crimes because they have (what no one who puts any thought to it would believe is) plausible deniability because they never told people to do illegal things, they just said they wanted something done and let their underlings figure it out.

I fear it won’t be long before people decide to an hero in a spectacular way against their local fascist strongholds for the same reasons you outline.

At some point, people are going to have nothing to lose and the desire to send a message to those in power.

Look at the people who voted to end the shutdown: no one who’s up for re-election this next cycle.

Either Schumer is one hell of a terrible leader, or there was a very obvious attempt at co-ordinating the vote to take advantage of voters’ (lack of) long term memory.