A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight. So he was dragged off, battered and limp.

Outrage over the forceable ejection of a passenger from a United Airlines flight has been spreading ever since video of the incident was posted to social media last night. The violence of the incident itself was perhaps overshadowed by the arrogance of the company's CEO who apologized for "having to re-accommodate" the passenger. To call the turning away of a paying customer, something that United Airlines engages in every blessed day, a "re-accommodation" is to put his contempt both for his customers and for us, the wider public, unasbashedly on display. Does he really think we're that stupid? Or does he simply think we're too insignificant to take seriously?

Or, while we're at it, why hasn't Merrick Garland still not properly thanked Mitch McConnell for "re-confirming" him to the DC Court of Appeals?

I think this incident needs to be seen in the larger context of our great new business climate. The small economic boom that we've seen recently can no longer be credited to the afterglow of the Obama recovery. Business is booming for the moment due to the well-founded optimism of business leaders confident that, for the foreseeable future, oil profits will always trump environmental regulations, credit card and banking profits will always trump consumer protection regulations, profits from aggressively intrusive advertising will always trump online privacy concerns, and the increasingly lucrative airline industry's growing profitability will certainly continue to trump the already feeble calls for legislative remedies on behalf of traveler's rights. I emphasize, their optimism is WELL-FOUNDED and is already exceeding in audacity the previous orgies of corporate greed we saw under Reagan and Bush-the-Younger.

And tweetstorms of outrage, as if this were a singularly awful isolated injustice, are second only to silent acquiescence among the most useless responses we could bring to this.It's time we learned to do politics again. Not election campaigns. Real politics. The kind that makes real change.

Bernie? Busy at the moment responding to the Syria bombing ...  Anyone else?