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The Emerging Anti-Corporate Majority
Hatred of companies' growing power and influence has become a uniting force.
Indivisible.
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In this age of seemingly unending partisan rancor, it’s heartening to see something that brings the nation together. Something like, you know, hating on United.
Sure, the airline’s passenger-dragging debacle last week elicited differing explanations and proposed solutions from people of differing political persuasions. But apart from the apoplexy occasioned by a Chicago crime journalist who suggested on Twitter that the United passengers who documented the incident on their smartphones should be prosecuted (and has since described her statements as part of a “parody & satire act”), the incident seems to have drawn Americans together, not apart.