I think the American left isn't focused enough on "poison pill" legislation.
I think the American left isn't focused enough on "poison pill" legislation.
No, seriously. Just like any system ours has loopholes and contradictions, we all know this. I think the left in America isn't focused enough on legislation that would almost certainly be challenged by SCOTUS which, in their decision, would open up an even bigger can of worms to overturn than to just keep in place.
I think the goal of this should not be to try and force a decision to uphold but rather to force them to swallow the poison pill and further harm the fascist project in the USA. Literally goad them into an overturning of whatever law you passed that requires such an opinion as to have broad sweeping repercussions. I don't have any ideas because I haven't thought much on it. However, I think there is some opportunity in this idea and enough people ruminating around it has potential.
It seems to me the rightwing kind of already engages in this. So why not the left? Isn't eroding the legal constructs of the capitalist state in our best interests?
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So we currently have some opportunities in regards to money as speech and corporations as "persons". It seems to me that abusing these decisions to argue something like a corporation flagrantly violating sanctions as the government banning the free speech of a person is the right direction. Should the left have some plan to open a cooperative just to do business directly with Cuba or something? Complete with some legal counsel, of course?
I think thats rather hopeful on the courts operating on the facts and logic, and not on interests
That's the beauty of a poison pill legislation. They can act in either manner and you win.
with cuba i suspect they rather throw book at your "shipping to cuba, llc", consider you a terrorist (thus matter of national security without corporate free speech rights) and be done with it